Category: 1. Palestine

Washington, DC – Jewish students involved in protests at Columbia University say their pro-Palestinian activism is driven by their faith – not in spite of it.

On Tuesday, a group of Jewish student activists met with members of the United States Congress in Washington, DC, to tell their stories, which they say have been left out of mainstream narratives about anti-Semitism on college campuses.

As student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza swept the country last year, Columbia…

The United States Supreme Court has allowed a ban on transgender military members to take effect while legal challenges over the restriction continue.

On Tuesday, the court’s conservative majority issued an unsigned order lifting a lower court’s injunction that had blocked the ban from taking effect.

The order also indicated that the Supreme Court’s three left-leaning judges – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – sought to deny the emergency request to lift the…

Inter Milan take their Champions League semifinal in record-equalling 7-6 aggregate score against Barcelona at San Siro.

Inter Milan substitute Davide Frattesi struck an extra-time winner to send his side into the Champions League final following a barnstorming 4-3 victory over Barcelona after Francesco Acerbi had rescued them from the brink of elimination with a stunning equaliser deep in added time.

Frattesi’s goal and a string of stunning saves by goalkeeper Yann Sommer secured Inter a…

California (Quds News Network)- A U.S. federal jury on Tuesday ordered Israeli spyware company NSO Group to pay $167 million in punitive damages for hacking WhatsApp users, reported the Washington Post. The verdict followed six years of legal battles and marked the largest penalty ever imposed on a spyware firm.

The jury reached its decision in Oakland, California, after two days of deliberation. The court also awarded $440,000 in compensatory damages to WhatsApp’s parent company,…

Israel has been waging a war on Gaza’s ability to govern itself and maintain law and order as a part of its 18-month-long genocidal campaign. The broad objective of this strategy has been to create a civil and humanitarian vacuum in Gaza that would lead to chaos and lawlessness. The intended effect, in Israel’s eyes, is either total social collapse, the spread of criminality, or the emergence of an alternative “clan”-based leadership in Gaza instead of Hamas. Israel stands to…

Video captured the moment of an Indian military strike in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The Indian Ministry of Defence says it struck multiple sites in what it calls “Operation Sindoor.” Pakistan’s military says at least 2 people were killed in the strikes. India has blamed Pakistan for an attack that killed 26 people last month in Pahalgam.

In recent years, California – home to America’s film industry – has slipped to become the sixth most preferred location to shoot and produce movies.

Hollywood producers are moving to cities in Canada, the United Kingdom, Central Europe and New Zealand, lured by a range of financial benefits on offer.

US President Donald Trump wants to reverse this trend and says he wants to “make movies…

India has launched missiles at several locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-administred Kashmir, the government said, and Pakistan promised to respond to the attacks.

Several explosions were heard in the city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday.

“A little while ago, the Indian armed forces launched ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where…

On April 8, Israel’s Education Ministry issued closure orders for six UNRWA-operated schools in East Jerusalem, set to take effect on May 7. In response, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) submitted a modest — perhaps too modest — request: delay the orders by two months to allow students to finish the current academic year and graduating seniors to take their matriculation…

Sanaa (Quds News Network)- Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis’ Supreme Political Council, declared that the Yemeni group will not abandon Gaza “no matter the cost,” following the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between the Houthis and Washington.

“What happened proves that our strikes are painful and will continue,” al-Mashat said, as quoted by the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV.

He warned the Houthis’ response to Israel “will be devastating and…