Senator Gary Peters, who has been vocal about combating Islamophobia, declines to put name on statement condemning attack Pro-Palestinian protest during University of Michigan’s 2024 commencement ceremony (Nic Antaya/Getty Images) Days after a group of young men attacked a University of Michigan student after overhearing him say he was Jewish, most of the state’s top
Group behind affirmative action ban says decline in Asian students is evidence of discrimination The view across Hewitt Quadrangle of Commons, Yale University / Facebook The group behind the lawsuit that brought down affirmative action in college admissions is demanding answers from universities that saw almost no change in the racial breakdown of their classes
A United Nations official who blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack called the Jewish state a genocidal “military dictatorship” during a Brown University panel on Monday evening. At the event—”Anatomy of a Genocide: A Failure of the International System?”—hosted by Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for the West
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris sat down with the National Association of Black Journalists for a Tuesday panel discussion, during which she struggled to convey her position on the Israel-Hamas war and repeatedly sparred with the friendly moderators. During one exchange, moderator Tanya Mosley of Philadelphia radio station WHYY asked Harris where she draws “the
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) on Tuesday slammed the Biden-Harris administration for effectively “stonewalling” congressional efforts to investigate the assassination attempts on Republican nominee Donald Trump. “I’m reaching the point of total outrage, because the response from the Department of Homeland Security has been totally lacking. In fact, I think it’s tantamount to stonewalling in
Vice President Kamala Harris’ signature electric school bus program was “overall a failure,” according to a report published Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight subcommittee. Under Harris’s so-called Clean School Bus program, the Environmental Protection Agency has thus far dished out $1.9 billion in rebates and another $1 billion in grants to
An Arab-American activist invited by Senate Democrats to testify at an anti-Semitism hearing on Tuesday defended calls for “intifada” and praise for Hamas “martyrs” on college campuses, telling lawmakers these chants are “not hate speech.” Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, said such calls were ambiguous and could “mean different [things].”