Columbia University: Police Arrest Pro-Palestinian Protesters Occupying Library
Police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied the Butler Library on the Columbia University campus on Wednesday.

Police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied the Butler Library on the Columbia University campus on Wednesday.
A Ramallah-based poll found that 49 percent of Gazans would apply to Israel for help emigrating, highlighting growing disillusionment inside the terror-run enclave.
The Irish hip-hop group Kneecap has had a number of shows canceled in Germany after displaying “F**k Israel” sign during its Coachella performance last month.
Israel called up its military reserves Sunday to prepare for a massive new operation, “Gideon’s Chariots,” in which it plans to reconquer Gaza and eliminate Hamas, neighborhood by neighborhood, over several months.
The UK is talking with France and Saudi Arabia about recognising Palestine as a state later this year, its left-wing government has revealed.
Encouraging Gaza’s voluntary emigration is “the most moral and humane thing to do,” according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, aligning with President Donald Trump’s vision to redevelop the troubled coastal territory.
The Eurovision Song Contest says artists at this year’s event will only be allowed to display the flags of the country they are representing.
Democrat lawmakers paid a visit to Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk — the two university students who face deportation as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown against antisemitism on college campuses.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed the condolences of his country to the Christian world on the death of Pope Francis on Monday, just one day after leading Easter celebrations at the Vatican.
Ms. Rachel, a popular YouTube star and children’s content creator, has defended her many posts about Palestinians in Gaza.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled against South Africa on a procedural dispute in the ongoing “genocide” case, granting a 6-month extension for Israel to file its responses after abuses by the South African team.
Nicaragua’s communist regime announced on Thursday that it wants to rejoin South Africa’s “genocide” case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) after having recently withdrawn from it due to its “high financial cost.”
A 16-year-old Tunisian boy fell to his death while attempting to hoist a Palestinian flag, according to regional sources, and has since been praised as a “martyr” by Palestinian factions and Arab activists, raising concerns of growing youth radicalization.
The Gaza Strip should become a “freedom zone,” free from Hamas and daily bloodshed, according to President Donald Trump, who reaffirmed his plan to relocate Palestinians to safer countries — saying “plenty” are ready to help — during a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
Hundreds of Palestinians in northern Gaza rallied against Hamas for the third consecutive week, according to local reports, chanting slogans calling the group a “terrorist organization” and demanding an end to its rule.
Multiple countries are now expressing interest in accepting Palestinian emigrants from Gaza, according to a senior Israeli official who said serious progress is underway in implementing President Donald Trump’s relocation initiative.
The “terrorists who attacked” the famed Turnberry — President Donald Trump’s golf course and resort in Scotland — have been caught, Trump announced over the weekend.
Hamas has tortured and executed a 22-year-old Palestinian who led protests against it in Gaza last week.
Roughly 100 Palestinians from Gaza will travel to Indonesia for construction work under a new Israeli pilot program, according to Channel 12 News, which reported the initiative as the first stage of a larger plan to facilitate voluntary migration from the Hamas-run enclave.
A majority of Palestinians would leave the Gaza strip if they were able to, according to a Gallup poll of the coastal enclave’s residents, which found that 52 percent would leave, either temporarily or permanently if given the chance.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen issued a warning to international shipping companies on Wednesday that they intend to resume missile and drone attacks against “any Israeli vessel” passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis suspended their attacks in January after Israel announced a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) after it produced a report claiming, falsely, that Israel tried to harm Palestinian fertility during the recent war in Gaza, and used sexual violence against Palestinians.
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) shouted at border czar Tom Homan in response to the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who graduated from Columbia University and led radical protests there, on Saturday, a sign of a Trump administration crackdown.
One of President Donald Trump’s golf courses in Scotland was vandalised by a group of “pro-Palestinian” protesters, defacing the property with graffiti and digging up the greens.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared its support on Wednesday for Egypt’s attempt to galvanize the Arab world into supporting a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, intended to prevent President Donald Trump from taking the territory over.
The Trump administration has rejected a $53 billion reconstruction proposal for Gaza by Arab states, calling it unrealistic due to Gaza’s “uninhabitable” conditions, Hamas’s control, and the lack of clarity on who would fund the billions needed for rebuilding.
President Donald Trump mentioned the hostages in Gaza, however briefly, in his address to a special joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
Egypt has proposed its alternative to President Donald Trump’s idea of annexing Gaza and moving its inhabitants: spend $53 billion to remove the rubble and rebuild Gaza, in the same place, with the same people, next to Israel.
The filmmakers for “No Other Land” accused the US of blocking peace in Israel after winning the Oscar for Best Documentary on Sunday night.
Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has described the conditions in which he was held by Hamas in Gaza, including torture and starvation that caused him to lose 40% of his body weight until he was released earlier this month.
CNN host Anderson Cooper said Wednesday on his show “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza could mobilize terrorists.
President Donald Trump’s plan to rebuild Gaza by resettling its citizens has significant support among many Gazans and is the “only solution” for struggling civilians, according to the Center for Peace Communications, which is fighting for Gazans to be given a chance to leave the war-torn enclave “to find a better life” for themselves and their families “before it’s too late.”
A senior Hamas official told the New York Times last week that he would not have supported the October 7, 2023, terror attack against Israel if he had known the outcome — the destruction of Hamas and the devastation of Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has halted the release of 602 Palestinian terrorists in return for Israeli hostages because of the morbid ceremonies in which Hamas makes hostages participate before they are freed.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed a host of regional Arab leaders to Riyadh on Friday for what Saudi media described as an “informal brotherly gathering” to discuss “cooperation and coordination.”
Gazan culture, as seen in the celebrations of murdered Israeli infants, is “evil,” according to Senator Tom Cotton, who backed President Donald Trump’s stance that Gaza can no longer be accepted as a Palestinian entity.
The grotesque ceremony Thursday in which Hamas terrorists paraded the coffins of four dead Israeli civilian hostages before a jeering crowd was the best argument for President Donald Trump’s plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza.
Frozen out of peace talks between the U.S. and Russia after years of posturing as a peace broker for the Ukraine war, China complained on Wednesday that the world is paying too much attention to the Ukraine conflict while ostensibly ignoring issues such as the plight of the Palestinians.
The BBC has been accused of spreading “Hamas propaganda” after it was claimed that a supposedly average teenager featured in a recent documentary on the conflict in Gaza is the son of a top Hamas official.