UCLA students stage graduation walk out to protest Israel’s war on Gaza
Dozens of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate students staged a walk-out of their graduation ceremony to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.
A video posted on X by an activist group, showed the students chanting, “Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest!”, as they left the ceremony on Friday.
Earlier this year, a pro-Palestinian and Gaza solidarity encampment at UCLA was violently attacked by a pro-Israeli mob before being cleared out by police shortly after.
grad students at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs staged a walkout from their commencement ceremony chanting “disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest!” ceremony was held at Royce Hall, where students were terrorized by Zionists & police at their encampment🇵🇸🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ju4EtpkCjl
— People's City Council - Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) June 14, 2024
Wikipedia war: Fierce row erupts over Israel’s deadly Nuseirat assault
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/14/wikipedia-war-fierce-row-erupts-over-israels-deadly-nuseirat-assault
A fierce “edit war” has broken out on Wikipedia over a page dedicated to a deadly Israeli raid in the Nuseirat refugee camp near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on the morning of June 8.
The bloody attack – ostensibly to free four Israeli captives held there – killed nearly 300 displaced people and injured more than 700, overwhelming the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Now, the Israeli raid has become the focus of a heated editing dispute on Wikipedia, which has been forced to restrict editing access to the page dedicated to the incident.
Germany declines to comment on targeting of academics
Germany has declined to address reports that the Education and Research Ministry was targeting academics who supported pro-Palestinian student protesters.
The public radio and television broadcaster NDR reported detailed funding cuts for professors after an open letter in May on the Free University of Berlin’s response to protesters. The letter accused the university administration of subjecting demonstrators to “police violence”.
Government spokesman Wolfgang Buchner declined to comment further on the reports and was pressed on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s stance. However, he acknowledged the criticism of the Education and Research Ministry, including demands for the minister to resign.
German universities have witnessed massive pro-Palestine student protests demanding their institutions call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Spanish protesters take to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians
