Louis Keene

Los Angeles

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Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy Columbia library, with 3 arrests reported

1 week ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

Students from a pro-Palestinian student group took over Columbia University's Butler Library on Wednesday, temporarily shutting it down in the run-up to finals. Eyewitnesses said about 100 people filled a reading room inside Butler, where they chanted, banged on drums and hung banners that read "Strike for Gaza," "Liberated Zone" and "Free Mahmoud," referring to Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate in ICE detention.
Israel critics want Radiohead's lead guitarist cancelled. He says they're hypocrites.

1 week ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

Radiohead lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood called out a culture of "censorship and silencing" after pro-Palestinian activists forced the cancellation of a pair of concerts with an Israeli musician.
Israel critics want Radiohead’s lead guitarist cancelled. He says they’re hypocrites.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Louis Keene

“You can see we were stoned. Dave and I were completely out of our brains”: The epic story of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii, the prog classic recorded next door to a volcanoPicture the scene. It’s the early 1990s or thereabouts, and indie rockers Radiohead are gathered at their shared dwelling in East Oxford. One night, …
What the Israeli occupation of Gaza would mean for Israelis and Palestinians

1 week ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

It was January 2024, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to be absolutely clear. "Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population," Netanyahu said in a recorded statement. "Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing so in full compliance with international law."The Israeli premier was feeling the pressure.
School Israel trip turns 'terrifying' for LA students attacked by Israeli teens

1 week ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

Milken Community School designed its eighth-grade class trip to provide authentic encounters with Israeli teens, but not the kind that include pepper spray and trips to the ER. The Jewish day school's Israel trip took a frightening turn Wednesday when local Jewish teens attacked the students at a public Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration in Tiberias.
School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Louis Keene

2 days agoBroom handles, hat pins, and curling irons, oh my! Pretty much every woman out there has had the experience of being afraid while walking alone at night, watching her surroundings with her keys laced through her fingers like a set of makeshift brass knuckles. Luckily, we have access to all kinds of …
A Jewish city attorney is going after Jewish protesters. Her Oct. 7 tweets are making it complicated.

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

The Los Angeles city attorney is going after protesters from a Jewish left-wing group who shut down a freeway on Hanukkah over the Israel-Hamas war - but her tweets from Oct. 7, 2023, are getting in the way. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto is pursuing misdemeanor charges against 31 members of IfNotNow, who were arrested in December 2023 after they walked onto the 110 freeway in Downtown L.A. and sat down, grinding rush-hour traffic to a halt.
Protesters clash in Crown Heights as Ben-Gvir visits Chabad headquarters

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

Itamar Ben-Gvir's protest-beset U.S. visit culminated with a stop at the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, where the far-right Israeli politician who boasted about repeatedly preventing hostage deals was feted with song and dance - and defended outside by a Hasidic crowd that assailed protesters with chants of "death to Arabs."The clashes Thursday outside 770 Eastern Parkway resulted in six arrests, according to the New York Police Department.
A federal agency survey reportedly asks Barnard employees if they're Jewish

3 weeks ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

The federal government debuted a new tactic this week in its fight against antisemitism: texting university employees to ask if they're Jewish. Staffers at Barnard College received text messages Monday from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency the White House is deploying in anti-DEI efforts, linking to a survey that asked whether they were Jewish or Israeli and whether they had been subject to harassment, The Intercept reported Wednesday.
Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus

3 weeks ago | forward.com | Louis Keene

The federal government debuted a new tactic this week in its fight against antisemitism: texting university employees to ask if they're Jewish. Staffers at Columbia University and the affiliated Barnard College received text messages Monday from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency the White House is deploying in anti-DEI efforts, linking to a survey that asked whether they were Jewish or Israeli and whether they had been subject to harassment.