US universities worry about funding cuts amid Gaza war protests
As we’ve been reporting, pro-Palestine protests have surged across dozens of US universities at the end of the academic year, bringing heightened US attention to Israel’s war on Gaza.
While student protesters are demanding their institutions divest from Israel, some university donors, angered by the unrest, have threatened to pull funding, putting university officials in a tight spot.
Harvard students name hall after Shireen Abu Akleh
Students at Harvard University in the US have named the hall after the veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was killed two years ago by an Israeli sniper in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Several human rights groups and media organisations found that the Israeli army was responsible for the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist.
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