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Protests in support of Palestine have continued at several universities this weekend, as students seek to make a statement during their graduation ceremonies. Students at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill protested outside campus buildings, splashing red paint on the steps of one building, according to the News and Observer. “Today is UNC’s graduation commencement and students have established an…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said there is “declining” support for free speech on college campuses as pro-Palestine protests take place at universities across the country. As part of a commencement address he gave at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic Ohio college, Alito said support for the freedom of speech is “declining dangerously.”…

Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…

A researcher at Arizona State University has been placed on leave as the university investigates a heated confrontation caught on video of him cursing out a woman wearing a hijab. Viral video from the rally shows Jonathan Yudelman, the postdoctoral scholar, approaching a woman who was wearing a hijab. Yudelman has his arms raised and…

Police started to break up a pro-Palestinian camp at George Washington University’s campus early Wednesday morning, which caused the House Oversight and Accountability Committee to announce the cancellation of a scheduled hearing on the Washington, D.C.’s government response to the protests. According to the student newspaper, The GW Hatchet, hundreds of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers came to…

Few college students list the conflict in the Middle East as one of the top three issues most important to them, in a new survey released Tuesday. The Generation Lab survey, conducted from May 3-6, asked college students to select up to three issues that are most important to them, from a list of nine.…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Biden “should and will” visit college campuses amid the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled the country. Host Margaret Brennan asked Khanna on “Face the Nation” whether the ongoing protests were becoming a “distraction” from the issues they are protesting. She also noted that Khanna has been…

Mitch Landrieu, the national co-chair of President Biden’s campaign, said Sunday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’s comparison of college protests to the Vietnam war was an “over exaggeration.” Landrieu was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” to respond to recent comments made by Sanders about the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests that have…

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan briefly interrupted the spring commencement ceremony Saturday. Videos of students wearing caps, gowns and keffiyehs, a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, circulated online during the ceremony in Ann Arbor. “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” they chanted. “Regents, regents, you can’t hide!…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana filed a lawsuit Friday against Indiana University, alleging that the school violated the First Amendment rights of people who are banned from campus after participating in pro-Palestine protests. According to the ACLU, the three individuals arrested have been banned by Indiana University police and are prohibited from…