Eyewitness videos showed people wielding sticks or poles to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.
I am no fan of Benjamin Netanyahu and the war he is prosecuting,but I am deeply concerned by the illiberal and simplistic turn that the protests at Sydney University are taking.
As police raided student protest encampments at American universities with rubber bullets and tear gas,in Melbourne academics brought jam and scones.
Unrest at UCLA comes a day after police in riot gear stormed New York’s Columbia University,which has become the centre of America’s student uprising over the war in Gaza.
American universities are “walking a tightrope” as one of the nation’s most storied higher education institutions becomes the centre of a national student uprising.
For weeks,ceasefire talks have been at a standstill. Now,with the new proposal in hand,an Israeli delegation is on its way to Cairo.
The number of pro-Palestinian campsites have now been set up at four universities,prompting calls from Jewish groups for them to be dismantled.
Will this,finally,be the moment Australia stands up and says enough is enough when it comes to domestic violence?
Organisers of a controversial event at the University of Sydney have defended anti-Israel slogans chanted by primary school age children.
A “kids’ excursion” to the pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Sydney saw young children led to chant calls for “intifada”.
Hamas has released a new video that appeared to show two Israeli hostages who have been held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 assault on southern Israel.