All posts tagged "Palestinian"

In a CNN interview Monday, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union likened the arrest of a pro-Palestinian Columbia University student to 1950s McCarthyism.

The name of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who led the "Red Scare" congressional hearings to root out alleged communists, is now synonymous with the political persecution of left-wing liberals.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on X on Sunday night that “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student. Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization." ...

During a portion of the CNN debate on the Middle East and the Israel/Hamas War, former President Donald Trump took a bizarre turn by using "Palestinian" as a slur when addressing President Joe Biden.

Biden has "become like a Palestinian" Trump said — except he's a "weak one."

Commenters on social media barely knew how to process this remark....

Any plan to divide a Palestinian state would be unacceptable, Iran's supreme leader said on Saturday, adding that such a state could exist temporarily as part of "liberated territory."

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Israeli aircraft struck Gaza overnight for the fourth time in as many days, wounding a militant who was about to fire a rocket, Palestinian security sources said on Saturday.

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Egypt on Saturday reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in four years, in a move hailed by Hamas but criticised by Israel.