The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/pro-palestine/page/2/)
Momodou Taal will remain banned from campus, but is no longer at risk of losing his student visa and can continue finishing his dissertation remotely, Interim Provost John Siliciano ’75 wrote in a Wednesday email.
About 100 people gathered to call for solidarity and an end to U.S. support for violence in Palestine.
To some extent, the conversation, however tedious, is the point: the fact that we’re discussing the process or severity, rather than the policy itself — or god forbid the genocidal horrors Taal and others were protesting — takes up air and emboldens Kotlikoff.
When it comes to suspensions — particularly for international students who risk losing their visas — the burden of proof must be high, and the process must be transparent and fair to those being disciplined, no matter their political views. The University failed on both points: A student activist is facing serious, disproportionate consequences without the ability to defend himself.
A pro-Palestinian international student has been barred from campus after participating in a disruption of a career fair attended by defense contractors L3Harris and Boeing.
Pro-Israel incumbent Rep. Molinaro shifted his stance on abortion prior to a rematch election against Democrat Josh Riley.
Most Cornell students live simultaneously in two realities: one where they are aware that American missiles are being used in one of the most repugnant acts of ethnic cleansing in human history, where every day brings new stories of mothers forced collect the scattered remains of their infant children in plastic bags; and another where they are pursuing a lucrative career that will allow them to live comfortably in the most powerful nation on Earth after graduation.
Over 100 pro-Palestine protesters confronted Boeing — a company students voted to divest from in April 2024 — at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’s Human Capital and Human Relations Career Fair Wednesday afternoon.
Over 100 pro-Palestine protesters confronted Boeing at the Human Capital and Human Relations Career Fair, “charging” the company with “aiding and abetting human rights violations, war crimes and genocide.”
Protesters from The Coalition for Mutual Liberation marched from Ho Plaza into Klarman Hall on Monday afternoon, chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever.”
While Monday’s protest was centered around Palestine, it also touched on the ongoing labor dispute between United Auto Workers Local 2300 — the union representing University food service, custodial, maintenance and other workers — and the University.