After skirting discipline last fall, MIT Coalition Against Apartheid can no longer organize on campus The Massachusetts Institute of Technology suspended an anti-Israel student group that has held unsanctioned demonstrations on campus in the wake of Oct. 7, with university president Sally Kornbluth saying the group disrupted and endangered students. MIT Coalition Against Apartheid “once
An Al Jazeera reporter wounded Tuesday during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza is a Hamas commander who recorded a video on Oct. 7 from within Israel praising Hamas’s terrorist attack, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday. Ismail Abu Omar has been serving as a deputy company commander for Hamas’s eastern battalion in the southern
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) says he is “honored” to have the endorsement of a left-wing group that wants to defund police departments and a federal immigration agency. The Indivisible Project, which calls itself one of the nation’s largest progressive grassroots groups, endorsed Gallego on Wednesday, its second endorsement in a 2024 Senate race. Gallego
South Africa’s latest request to the World Court against a possible offensive by Israel in southern Gaza serves Hamas and is an attempt to stop Israel from defending itself, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. South Africa on Tuesday asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to consider whether Israel’s plan to extend its
Climate protesters on Wednesday dumped pink powder on the United States Constitution at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Two young men poured the powder on the Constitution—which is protected by a glass casing in the building’s rotunda—as they called for President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, video showed. Security promptly cleared the
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D., N.J.) wife, Nadine, used a phone the couple referred to as her “007 phone” in the bribery scheme alleged against the couple, prosecutors said in a Monday court filing. Menendez called his wife in January 2019 on “a phone Menendez and Nadine Menendez referred to as her ‘007’ phone, an apparent
Tehran simulates attack on Israeli hangar housing American-made F-35s Iranian missiles exhibited in a park in Tehran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) Iran test fired advanced ballistic missiles on Tuesday in a series of war drills meant to prepare the Islamic Republic for a strike on Israeli military sites that house American-made F-35 fighter jets, according to