Thursday, April 18, 2024

Allies try to punish Iran with sanctions, though their effect has been limited in the past; Qatar says it is reviewing its mediator role as Israel-Hamas talks stall.

Allies try to punish Iran with sanctions, though their effect has been limited in the past.

Qatar says it is reviewing its mediator role as Israel-Hamas talks stall.

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.

 They Graduated Into Gaza’s War. What Happened to Them? - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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More Than 100 Columbia University Students Arrested as Protests Intensify - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Columbia Sends In the N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Protesters in Tent City - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The university president broke with a decades-long tradition and called in the police to quell the pro-Palestinian protest. The encampment was then dismantled.

Enough: University of Michigan and Other Colleges Crack Down on Student Protests - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

After years of tolerating unruly protests, some schools are starting to suspend and expel students, raising questions about where they should draw the line.

4 Takeaways from Today’s Hearing on Antisemitism at Columbia University - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Opinion | Republicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. Columbia Obliged. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Opinion: At Columbia, the Grown-Ups in the Room Take a Stand

Opinion | What Is Happening at the Columbia School of Social Work? - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Qatari prime minister, right, with the foreign minister of Turkey, at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, this week.Credit...Karim Jaafar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, said, “I took this extraordinary step because these are extraordinary circumstances.” Credit...C.S. Muncy for The New York Times