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University of Alberta president defends calling in Edmonton police to clear pro-Palestinian protest encampment
Pro-Palestine demonstrators mark one week since the start of their encampment at King’s College Circle at the University of Toronto on May 9, 2024. Over 100 tents have been erected as protesters continue to demand the University divests from companies connected to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. May 9, 2024. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

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University of Alberta president defends calling in Edmonton police to clear pro-Palestinian protest encampment
Pro-Palestine demonstrators mark one week since the start of their encampment at King’s College Circle at the University of Toronto on May 9, 2024. Over 100 tents have been erected as protesters continue to demand the University divests from companies connected to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. May 9, 2024. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)
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Jerry Seinfeld speech at Duke commencement prompts walkout protesting his support for Israel
(FILES) Jerry Seinfeld poses on the red carpet for the 21st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2018. Dozens of students walked out of Duke University's graduation ceremony on May 12, 2024 as comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has vocally supported Israel over its war in Gaza, received an honorary doctorate, videos posted on social media showed. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Northern Israelis evacuated in October wonder if they’ll ever return home as Hezbollah attacks continue
"Rubi Bar" and her son Yonatan in their room at the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem where they have been staying for more than six months. Ruby and her family were evacuated from the settlement of Shlomi in northern Israel
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Protesters return to University of Calgary campus day after riot police clear encampment
Pro-Palestine protesters with arms linked move out of the way as police move to clear a protest encampment at the University of Calgary campus, in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, May 9, 2024. The university said protesters at the encampment were trespassing and asked for help from police, who arrived in riot gear and issued multiple warnings for the crowd to disperse before starting to tear down fencing and tents. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Noah Korver
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Police launch assault investigation into incidents at University of Victoria’s protest encampment
Saanich Police say an assault investigation is underway following two alleged incidents at the protest encampment on the grounds of the University of Victoria. Pro-Palestinian protesters hold a demonstration during a visit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the University of Victoria, in Saanich, B.C., on Friday, April 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks during a special session of the UN General Assembly regarding the Palestinian bid for full membership to the UN, at UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. A veto from the United States during an April 18, 2024 UN Security Council meeting previously foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Riot gear, tear gas deployed as police dismantle pro-Palestinian protests at U.S. campuses
Police detain a protester on the University of Pennsylvania campus, in Philadelphia, on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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U.S. says Israel’s use of U.S. arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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For many Israelis and Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas are an obstacle to peace
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak during an event about the Middle East peace talks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 1, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo
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Hamas says Gaza ceasefire efforts are back at square one
An injured Palestinian kid looks on as mourners stand next to the bodies of Palestinians (not pictured) killed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 10, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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Netanyahu vows to keep up Israel’s fight against Hamas after Biden’s threat to halt weapons
Israeli army main battle tanks and other military vehicles are positioned in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hamas is in trouble with Palestinians in Gaza
Hussein Ibish
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Israel strikes eastern Rafah as ceasefire talks end with no deal
Israeli army main battle tanks and other military vehicles are positioned in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hamas sticks to its approval of truce proposal, Hamas senior official says
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from a border position in southern Israel toward the Gaza Strip on May 8, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Why the U.S. paused the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel ahead of a possible Rafah attack
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 8, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Jewish students say they don’t feel safe, as MPs probe antisemitism at universities
Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board Anthony Housefather speaks during a press conference at the National Press Theatre in the Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Biden says U.S. won’t supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally
Israeli army battle tanks and military vehicles take position in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 8, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by Jack Guez / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. due to render first-of-its-kind verdict on whether Israel following law in war in Gaza
FILE PHOTO: Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 7, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
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U of T protesters say university giving them ‘the runaround,’ not addressing demands
Protesters chant outside of a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the University of Toronto campus in Toronto on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the University of Toronto say the university is ignoring their demands and instead focusing on the logistics of the demonstration. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Main maternity hospital in Rafah stops admitting patients
A Palestinian medic cares for babies born preterm amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement, at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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University protest encampments opposed by nearly half of all Canadians, poll suggests
A new online opinion poll suggests that nearly half of Canadians oppose the pro-Palestinian encampments that have cropped up on a number of university campuses across the country. Pro-Palestinian activists at their encampment on McGill University campus, in Montreal, Monday, May 6, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Police clearing pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University, dozens arrested
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 8: Demonstrators talk to a George Washington University police officer as law enforcement block H Street near George Washington University's University Yard on May 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some demonstrators calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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With Gaza’s maternity care in shambles, danger and misery abound for babies, parents and midwives
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Israel says it reopened a key Gaza crossing after a rocket attack but UN says no aid has entered
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)
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Israeli-Canadian businessman killed in Egypt in potential antisemitic attack
Photos and comments from Ziv Kipper Facebook page. An Israeli-Canadian businessman has been murdered in the Egyptian city of Alexandria
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U.S. holding up some Boeing-made arms shipments to Israel, sources say
A Boeing logo is seen at the company's technology and engineering center in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil October 10, 2023. REUTERS/Gabriel Araujo/ File Photo
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Israel’s military operation in Rafah ‘completely unacceptable,’ Joly says
Palestinians crowd a street as smoke billows nearby from Israeli strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Some colleges that had been permissive of pro-Palestinian protests begin taking a tougher stance
Demonstrators break down fences to re-occupy an encampment in support of Palestinians at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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Police break up a pro-Palestinian student protest in Berlin as demonstrations spread across Europe
Police officers try to remove a banner held by pro-Palestinian activists at the university campus of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, on May 7, 2024 as police forces try to break up a demonstration of activists against Israel's war in the Gaza Strip which was sparked by Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack. According to local media reports, activists set up a protest camp with tents in a courtyard of the university. The university has ordered the evacuation and called the police, who have cordoned off the area. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel captures main aid route into Gaza as Rafah invasion intensifies
FILE PHOTO: Israeli military vehicles operate in the Gazan side of the Rafah Crossing, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip, in this handout image released on May 7, 2024. Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY/File Photo
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Gaza’s Rafah crossing closed because of Israeli tanks, border authority says
FILE PHOTO: A convoy of aid trucks drives into Gaza from Rafah crossing, April 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in this screen grab taken from video. REUTERS TV/via REUTERS/File Photo
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UN says ‘full-blown famine’ is in northern Gaza. What does that mean?
FILE - Boxes from Jordan wait in an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas. But a formal — and highly sensitive — famine declaration faces the complications of politics and of confirming how many people have died. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
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Israel launches invasion of Rafah after rejecting ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas
People flee the eastern parts of Rafah, after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa al Baz
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CSIS warns ‘extremist actors’ rhetoric around Israel-Hamas war could lead to violence
A sign for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service building is shown in Ottawa, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Newly released memos show Canada's spy agency revealed its interest in people to foreign partners in two cases after receiving assurances the individuals would not be tortured, a practice human rights advocates say shirks the law and puts vulnerable detainees at risk. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7
Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, speaks to a journalist in her family home in Kibbutz Meflasim, southern Israel, Friday, May 3, 2024. On Monday, Tzamir will join 55 other Holocaust survivors from Israel and around the world for a memorial march in Poland, called March of the Living. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Pro-Palestinian protesters at McGill University organize for another week
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who have set up dozens of tents at McGill University's downtown Montreal campus say they're better organized and prepared than ever as the protest stretches into a second week. Pro-Palestinian activists at their encampment on the McGill University campus in Montreal, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Humanitarian aid shipments at risk as talks between Israel, Hamas collapse
A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip waits as another truck exits a gate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Erez Crossing in southern Israel, May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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Netanyahu’s Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel after rising tensions
A picture shows a view of the Al Jazeera television network offices in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on May 5, 2024. Israel's Prime Minister said on May 5 that his government has decided to shut down the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera, with which his administration has had a long-running feud. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’
A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip waits as another truck exits a gate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Erez Crossing in southern Israel, May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen