Protest
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World
Austin Pushes Back on Claims of Israel Carrying Out Genocide in Gaza
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the Pentagon had no evidence that Israel was carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Austin made the comments in testimony at a Senate Armed ...
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World
Protest Outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem Home Turns Into ‘Riot,’ Police Say
The Israeli police clashed with anti-government protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, which was the third day of demonstrations calling for early elections and his ouster. Thousands of protesters ...
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Outside Israel’s Parliament, Protesters Explain Why Netanyahu Must Go
Hundreds of small silver tents were clustered on the pavement outside Israel’s Parliament in Jerusalem on Monday, stretching at least a city block. Many had Israeli flags taped to their roofs, along with stickers bearing slogans. “There is no greater ...
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Arts
Climate Protesters Disrupt Broadway Play Starring Jeremy Strong
A performance of a new production of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” was interrupted by protesters who shouted “no theater on a dead planet.”
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World
Penn Trustees Meeting Is Cut Short After Students Protest Over War in Gaza
The meeting was abruptly adjourned about 10 minutes in after a demonstration by pro-Palestinian students protesting the university’s ties with Israel.
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World
Why Power Eludes the French Left
The signs that a protest is happening in Paris are nearly always the same: the quiet of blocked-off streets; the neat rows of police vans containing the gendarmerie stretching down the boulevard; the sound of drumbeats and whistles and the neon red ...
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World
U.S. Airman’s Winding Path Ended in Self-Immolation to Protest Israel
Aaron Bushnell, the cyberdefense operations specialist who lit himself on fire to protest Israel’s killing of Palestinians, had left an isolated Christian community for the Air Force before turning to activism.
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World
What Does the Uncommitted Vote in Michigan Mean for 2024?
The share of Arab American and Muslim voters is small but could be decisive in a close race.
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World
Netanyahu Says He Won’t Bow to Pressure to Call Off Rafah Invasion
The Israeli leader has come under international pressure to drop a threatened incursion into the city where more than a million Palestinians are gathered, seeking refuge from the war.
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World
Large Antigovernment Protest Returns to Tel Aviv, as Criticism of Netanyahu Mounts
Thousands of antigovernment protesters on Saturday filled a central Tel Aviv thoroughfare, the same street where demonstrations riled the nation before the start of the Israel-Hamas war, in the largest show of anger toward Prime Minister Benjamin ...