And this is where US media incitement leads to
Columbia pro-Palestine protesters say member was run down by pro-Israel driver
The activist group Columbia University Apartheid Divest says a pro-Israel driver ran into a pro-Palestine demonstration in New York City earlier today.
A statement from CAUD says the driver was a relative of Meir Kahane, the far-right Jewish radical who advocated violent attacks against Arabs and remains a major influence on the Israeli far-right.
“One member of CAUD’s de-escalation team was struck and has since been hospitalized,” the news release reads, stating that it is the second time their group has been assaulted by pro-Israel individuals in one week and the fourth time this year their members have been hospitalised in such attacks.
Columbia Law School defends students after conservative judges say they will not hire former students
Columbia Law School has said that graduates are “consistently sought out”, after a Monday letter from 13 conservative federal judges said they would not hire former Columbia students due to pro-Palestine protests on campus over the last several weeks.
The letter called the campus, where administrators have called in police to clear out antiwar demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza, an “incubator of bigotry”.
Law Dean Gillian Lester said in a statement today that Columbia law students were “consistently sought out by leading employers in the private and public sectors, including the judiciary”.
Hundreds march in New York City against Israeli incursion into Rafah
We are right here in downtown New York City where hundreds of people gathered in Union Square to demand an end to the war. To demand an end to the incursion in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Hundreds of people have started marching all around this area. We’ve already seen at least four people being arrested. The police are saying that people need to be marching where people are marching right now, if not, they will be detained. They cannot block the road.
There has been a lot of tension… As I said, four people have been arrested and this just adds up to what we have been seeing in this city in the past few days. University campuses with encampments and students being evicted, suspended, expelled, arrested in many cases.
The Bahamas formally recognises the State of Palestine
The Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that it has formally recognised Palestine as a state, joining a growing number of countries doing so in recent weeks.
In a statement published on Tuesday, The Bahamas said it had joined the “Caribbean Community’s consensus on this matter”.
“The Bahamas became an independent nation in 1973 as an act of self-determination. Therefore, The Bahamas supports the legal right of the Palestinian people of self-determination,” the statement said.
Last week, the government of Trinidad and Tobago announced that it was officially recognising the State of Palestine, while several EU countries are set to recognise Palestine as an independent state by the end of May.
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