Austin

2025-06-01

أبرمت منصة الأمريكية شراكة مع شركة رائدة فى لتحسين تجربة التوصيل فى وكفاءتها، وتهدف الخطة إلى استخدام الروبوتات لتوصيل الطرود، حيث بدأت Veho باستخدام روبوتات RIVR لتوصيل الطرود فى أوستن، وبناء على الدروس المستفادة من التجربة الأولية، تهدف الخطة إلى توسيع نطاق التوصيل ليشمل أسواقًا إضافية فى وقت لاحق من هذا العام. أكدت Veho أن الروبوتات لن تحل محل سائقى التوصيل البشريين، بل تهدف هذه الابتكارات إلى تمكين البشر من توصيل المزيد من الطرود بشكل أسرع وبجهد بدنى أقل، كما يمكن للروبوتات المساعدة فى ضمان تجربة توصيل فائقة، بحسب interesting engineering. الروبوت وأكدت الشركة أنه بينما يكمل سائق بشرى عملية توصيل واحدة، يُسلّم الروبوت ذو العجلات شحنة أخرى، متنقلا من مركبة التوصيل إلى باب منزل العميل، مُرتّبا الطرود وفقا لتعليماته، ومستخدما تطبيق Veho لإرسال صورة لكل عملية توصيل ناجحة. وصرح إيتامار زور، المؤسس المشارك والرئيس التنفيذى لشركة Veho: "على مدار 9 سنوات، أثبتت Veho أن منصة التوصيل والتكنولوجيا المُصممة للتجارة الإلكترونية تُقدّم تجارب توصيل أفضل وفوائد اقتصادية للمستهلكين والعلامات التجارية، وتُمثّل هذه الشراكة خطوة مُهمة فى إعادة ابتكار خدمات التوصيل فى التجارة الإلكترونية، وتمكين العلامات التجارية من تحويل الشحن من مركز تكلفة إلى مُحرّك قيمة". 📢 We're live in the U.S. RIVR robots are hitting the streets of Austin with —bringing Physical AI to the final 100 yards of e-commerce. Together we're empowering humans to deliver smarter, faster, and better. — RIVR (@rivr_tech) كما كشفت Veho أنه خلال التجربة، سيرافق موظف من RIVR الروبوت لضمان السلامة وجودة التوصيل، بينما يُراقب أعضاء فريقى Veho وRIVR الروبوت لمعرفة أدائه أثناء عمليات التوصيل الفعلية. صرّح ماركو بيلونيك، الرئيس التنفيذى لشركة RIVR: "مع النمو الهائل فى التجارة الإلكترونية، أصبح الميل الأخير هو الحلقة الأكثر أهمية وتعقيدا فى سلسلة اللوجستيات، فى RIVR، تتمثل مهمتنا فى وضع مليون روبوت توصيل ميدانيا، مستفيدين من الذكاء الاصطناعى الفيزيائى العام لتوسيع نطاق الروبوتات الحضرية إلى حيث تشتد الحاجة إليها". وأكدت RIVR أنها نجحت فى حل تحدى الـ 100 ياردة الأخيرة من خلال الجمع بين تصميمها ذو الأرجل المتحركة والذكاء الاصطناعى المادى، مما يُمكّن الروبوت من تجاوز عقبات العالم الحقيقى مثل السلالم والبوابات والتضاريس غير المستوية، وصولا إلى عتبة باب المستهلك. على عكس روبوتات الأرصفة، التى تقتصر مهمتها على توصيل الطلبات على جانب الطريق، مع انخفاض الإنتاجية، يعمل روبوت RIVR بالتوازى مع السائقين البشريين وبسرعة تجعل التوصيل الكثيف متعدد النقاط قابلا للتطبيق تجاريا. وبينما توفر الطائرات بدون طيار إمكانية الوصول إلى المناطق الريفية، فإن RIVR مصمم خصيصا للتعامل مع تعقيد وحجم الخدمات اللوجستية الحضرية مما يوفر التشغيل الآلى للأمتار القليلة الأخيرة من كل عملية تسليم، وفقا لبيان صحفى. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-30

Columbia University has taken decisive action by suspending student demonstrators who refused to disband their encampment, marking a significant development in the ongoing protests against Israel's military actions in Gaza. "Today, Columbia University began suspending students as part of this next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus," stated Ben Chang, Vice President of Communications at Columbia University. The decision follows almost two weeks of protests against Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza. Earlier this month, around 100 protesters were arrested at Columbia, sparking renewed attention to the demonstrations. "No encampments will be allowed," declared Texas Governor Greg Abbott, in response to similar protests at the University of Texas at Austin, where police clashed with demonstrators and made arrests while dismantling an encampment. In response to the suspension, student organizers at Columbia voiced their determination to continue their protests until their demands are met. "These repulsive scare tactics mean nothing compared to the deaths of over 34,000 Palestinians," stated a student protester at a press conference. "We will not move until Columbia meets our demands or… are moved by force." The protests have drawn condemnation for veering into antisemitism and hate speech. Despite the tensions, university administrators are striving to balance free speech rights with maintaining order on campus. "We must not repeat the mistakes of the past by becoming overly dependent on one source for essential resources," warned Columbia University president Minouche Shafik.  "One group’s rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another group’s right to speak, teach, and learn." As the, the Biden administration has emphasized the importance of upholding free expression within the bounds of the law. "We get that it is a painful moment that Americans are dealing with, and free expression has to be done within the law," stated Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-26

The governor of Texas cheered on the arrests of dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Texas this week, as clashes with authorities broke out on campuses from Austin to Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, the Twin Cities and beyond. At some schools, students took over campus buildings, while others were seeing protest encampments spring up for the first time. Hundreds of people have been arrested as police and campus authorities have cracked down on the student protests in a growing number of places. Meanwhile, the University of Southern California announced Thursday that it was canceling its graduation ceremony altogether, shortly after it barred its valedictorian from speaking after pro-Israel groups raised alarm about her social media profile. The latest incidents come a week after of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University, inspiring copycat protests at other colleges that have flummoxed administrators in many cases. The sight of armed police officers sometimes violently disrupting so-called “Gaza solidarity encampments” has drawn comparisons to similar crackdowns on Vietnam War-era campus protests, particularly at Kent State University, where members of the National Guard killed four protesters and wounded nine more in 1970. Three of the murdered Kent State students were Jewish, including Allison Krause. On Wednesday, her sister Laurel condemned Columbia’s president, and other university heads, for their handling of the Gaza protests, urging them to allow student protests without the prospect of police intervention. LAPD surrounds students protesting in support of Palestinians at an encampment at the University of Southern California’s Alumni Park, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Los Angeles, California, US, April 24, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/ZAYDEE SANCHEZ) “In 1970 failures of Kent State University leadership enabled the massacre which left ‘Four Dead in Ohio,’” Krause, who today runs a Kent State narrative project and has advocated on behalf of Palestinians, said in a statement. “Our institutions must learn from these past mistakes to not use militarized responses against unarmed, peaceful student protesters by calling in the National Guard, bringing in State Troopers or deploying Police in riot gear.”  The protests have become a canvas for politicians of all stripes, who have made appearances on campuses to advance their own agendas. Republican politicians have urged drastic interventions to quell what they describe as antisemitic unrest. Some progressive Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, appeared in protest encampments.  And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose handling of the war with Hamas has drawn fierce condemnation not only from international bodies but also from many Israelis, also . “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities,” he said in a statement on Wednesday, insisting, “It has to be stopped,” and praising authorities who have taken action against protesters. Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. The world cannot stand idly by. One of those who has is Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who on Wednesday praised state and local police for breaking up a protest at the University of Texas at Austin. Authorities arrested at least 57 people on campus.  “Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled,” the Republican stated on the social network X Wednesday. He later added, “These protesters belong in jail.”  Secure Community Network, a program that provides security training and resources for synagogues and other Jewish community structures, said Thursday it was tracking 33 different “anti-Israel” campus protests across the United States and Canada. The group characterized them as “protests calling for terrorism and violence against Jews,” and urged schools “to implement no-tent, no-encampment policies and enforce a zero-tolerance policy on assaults against students or police.” Despite some reports that Abbott had called the National Guard in to break up the Austin protests, a spokesperson for the National Guard told local news outlets Thursday that it had not been dispatched to campus. Yet calls to deploy the guard against student pro-Palestinian protesters have been growing on the right in recent days, with House Speaker Mike Johnson urging the White House to do the same after visiting Columbia’s campus Wednesday. (On Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was “up to the governors to decide.”) Other Republican senators have taken up the call as well, including Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley. Most of the charges against the arrested protesters in Austin were quickly dropped. More than 500 students had staged a walkout demanding that the state’s flagship public university divest from Israeli weapons manufacturers.  Last month, Abbott took a harsh line against his state’s protesters by requiring schools to revise their free-speech policies to punish “the sharp rise in antisemitic speech and acts on university campuses.” He specifically cited the Palestine Solidarity Committee, which organized the UT protest, as an antisemitic group, and singled out the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which many Jewish groups say is a call for Israel’s destruction, as an antisemitic phrase. UT’s Hillel director expressed alarm for Jewish students’ safety on social media prior to the protests and advised Jewish students not to counterprotest. On Instagram Tuesday, Texas Hillel Executive Director Rabbi Stephanie Max accused the protesters of “making use of a Jewish holiday and observance to promote a hateful agenda” and said she had received assurance from the university that “there will be no tolerance for disruption or behaviors misaligned to University policy and the Governor’s executive order.” After the protests Wednesday, Max said it had been “an incredibly challenging and sad day on campus” but did not comment on the protests or the arrests directly. She continued to encourage the school’s Jewish community to participate in Passover events through the rest of the holiday. A statement sent late Wednesday by the campus Chabad also emphasized its Passover events over the protests, referring only to “what happened on campus today.” A pro-Israel UT student group sang and danced thanking the officers who broke up the encampment. Other Jews at the university criticized the state’s response as excessive and a violation of free-speech protections. UT history professor Jeremi Suri, who describes himself as half-Jewish and half-Hindu, told the Tribune that the response was an “attack on students,” who he said were “not .” UT’s president, Jay Hartzall, defended the crackdown in an email to students. “Today, our University held firm, enforcing our rules while protecting the Constitutional right to free speech,” he wrote, adding, “The protesters tried to deliver on their stated intent to occupy campus.” Another Southern campus with a large Jewish population was also in turmoil Thursday, as local and state police at Emory University in Atlanta reportedly used tear gas, rubber bullets and tasers to break up a campus pro-Palestinian protest, where they accused protesters of trespassing. A reported 15 people were arrested at Emory, whose student body is around 20% Jewish; the university said the demonstrators are “not members of our community.”  Atlanta’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group, announced Thursday that it “stands in full solidarity” with the Emory protesters and accused police of having “violently escalated an entirely peaceful encampment.” One of the arrested was the chair of the school’s Philosophy department. Other campus protests also devolved into arrests, with more than 100 members of an Emerson College encampment in Boston arrested on Wednesday and at least 93 arrests at USC, according to reports.  At the University of Minnesota, nine members of a protest were arrested Tuesday as police cleared out the encampment as the university insisted, “We support the rights of all members of our University community to speak and demonstrate peacefully.” Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and fierce critic of Israel whose own daughter was arrested during the Columbia protests last week, spoke in support of the protesters prior to the arrests. “People who tell us we are wrong for being out here, they’re going to be footnotes in the history books,” Omar told the crowd on campus, according to reports. “Follow your gut and know that what we are doing, the voices that we are raising to save lives in Gaza is just and righteous and morally correct.” Mirabai Dornfest, a student protester, identifies as Jewish and told Minnesota Public Radio she was especially moved to join the protests during Passover, “the Jewish holiday of liberation.” “I think it’s very in line with my morals and with the morals of a holiday to protest for liberation of the Palestinian people,” Dornfest said. Aggression has unfolded in both directions. Protesters at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt took over two campus buildings this week demanding that the school “disclose all holdings and collaborations” with what a local pro-Palestinian group called “the zionist entity,” and “cut all ties with Israeli universities.” In response, the university announced Wednesday that it was locking down its campus through at least the weekend.  Videos from Humboldt, located near the Oregon border, showed students clashing with police officers in riot gear; authorities also told news outlets that “hateful” graffiti, causing damage in the “millions,” had been tagged around campus. The school has a small Jewish population of around 150 students and a Chabad house, but no Hillel. Antisemitism was also visible at some protests, including the targeting of Jewish campus buildings. Video from a protest at Tulane University in New Orleans, obtained by JTA, shows protesters chanting, “Hillel, you can’t hide. You’re committing genocide.” (Tulane Hillel did not respond to an immediate request for comment.) The Jewish News of Northern California also reported that one speaker at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Berkeley, claimed that “Jewish women” such as Betty Friedan “sometimes imported Zionist political operations” into American feminism. The US Department of Education also announced several new federal Title VI “shared ancestry” discrimination investigations at Columbia and a handful of other schools this week, including Hunter College in New York and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. It is the second active investigation at Columbia; New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik used the specter of Title VI violations in calling this week for Columbia to be stripped of federal funding.  The origins of the new complaints were not immediately known, but schools are also being investigated for alleged discrimination against Muslim and pro-Palestinian students. Another recently opened investigation, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, follows a complaint revealed this week to have been filed by Palestine Legal. The complaint details discriminatory behavior the legal aid group says 18 Muslim students suffered at the hands of pro-Israel students and groups including Canary Mission, which publishes the names and personal information of people (including private citizens) the site’s anonymous owners deem threats to Israel. The complaint also claims that a UMass student had showed up to pro-Palestinian protests chanting “Kill all Arabs.” The complaint means UMass Amherst joins a small list of other schools, including Columbia and Harvard, that have been investigated for both antisemitic and Islamophobic allegations since Oct. 7. Despite the turmoil, most Jewish campus professionals have maintained that Jewish students remain safe on campus.  “Jewish students have no reason to leave College Hill,” Rabbi Josh Bolton, executive director of the Hillel serving both Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, wrote in a letter to the campus community Wednesday night as an encampment at Brown took hold.  “In fact, they have every reason to stay put, to gather for Shabbat, and to express themselves proudly as Jews — members of a global family, rooted in Eretz Yisrael.”  ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-25

American police and activists clashed at multiple colleges and universities on Wednesday, even as students occupied new campuses across the United States and beyond. Texas State troopers marched and rode on horses into University of Texas Austin on Wednesday to arrest and disperse anti-Israel activists attempting to set up an encampment in the emulation of Columbia University. Thirty-four people were arrested in response to the Austin arm of the National Students for Justice in Palestine endeavor to seize campuses and force the adoption of policies. Governor Greg Abbott responded to the encampment by sending the state troopers, who, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety, had been deployed "to prevent any unlawful assembly and to support UT Police in maintaining the peace by arresting anyone engaging in any sort of criminal activity, including criminal trespass." "These protesters belong in jail," Abbot said on social media on Wednesday. "Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled." Palestine Solidarity Committee Austin Texas said that the arrests were a "horrific act of violent repression" and a violation of first amendment rights. The anti-Israel group said that they would continue to hold protests on Thursday. "[UT President] Jay Hartzell, Greg Abbott, and our local and university officials have made it clear that they DO NOT care about the principles of free speech they so proudly uplift at every given opportunity and they especially don’t care about any of their students, let alone their Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students," said PSC. "We join our faculty’s call to continue to protest in the face of oppression! We call on our community to resist the draconian tactics of intimidation employed by our university and to reaffirm our demands tomorrow." The same day, ninety-three protesters were arrested for trespassing at the University of Southern California by the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD said that patrols would remain on campus into Thursday. USC had called on student activists to disperse, warning that the LAPD would arrest those who refused. The school also warned that the campus had been closed because of the encampment. USC Students for Justice in Palestine responded to the attempts to close down the encampment by calling for reinforcements. Early Thursday morning, SJP Emerson College said that the Boston Police Department had broken into their encampment and arrested at least 50 students. BARRICADES UP AT EMERSON COLLEGE IN BOSTON Emerson College President Jay Bernhardt said in a Wednesday statement that the BPD and the Boston Fire Department had notified him that protesters were in violation of city ordinances by occupying Boylston Place Alley, which is not solely owned by the school. In addition to blocking public pedestrian access, there were noise violations and fire hazards. "Of additional concern, Emerson has received credible reports that some protestors are engaging in targeted harassment and intimidation of Jewish supporters of Israel and students, staff, faculty, and neighbors seeking to pass through the alley," said Bernhardt. "This type of behavior is unacceptable on our campus. To ensure the safety of our community, Emerson has placed members of the Windwalker Security staff at the Boylston Place alley to ensure safe and consistent access to the alley as required by law.' California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, has seen activists occupying buildings barricade themselves against police intrusions over recent days, and New York University saw police arrest and remove protesters from Gould Plaza on Monday. "The NYPD will always protect the rights to protest and free speech while ensuring the safety of all New Yorkers," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Operations Kaz Daughtry. "Our officers are professionals who will continue to be firm but fair when it comes to public safety." The situation at NYU tonight was unreal NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition said that over 140 arrests were made. NYU Presiden Linda Mills said in a statement that they had set up barriers to ensure safety and not to allow further activists to join, but the situation had escalated. "We made no move to clear the plaza at that point because high among the University's aims was to avoid any escalation or violence. So, the University was deeply disturbed when, early this afternoon, additional protesters — many of whom we believe are not affiliated with the University — suddenly breached the barriers that had been put in place at the north side of the plaza and joined the others already on the plaza," said Mills." Many refused to leave. We also learned that there were intimidating chants and several antisemitic incidents reported. Given the foregoing and the safety issues raised by the breach, we asked for assistance from the NYPD. The police urged those on the plaza to leave peacefully but ultimately made a number of arrests." NYU SPC said Wednesday that the walls were set up to prevent expression of free speech, and there was no breach but an orderly entry of people into the campus. They accused the administration of weaponizing Judaism and student safety to conceal Israeli "apartheid, occupation, and genocide in Gaza" and to "please its cowardly zionist donors and trustees." Pictures and videos published by NYU SJP on Wednesday seem to indicate that while the encampment had been cleared, protests in front of the campus continued under heavy NYPD supervision. "NYPD has destroyed our liberated zone and arrested students and faculty," NYU SJP said on Instagram Monday. Harvard University became one of the latest campuses to be host to an encampment on Wednesday, as a Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee video showed, with students screaming and rushing onto a lawn to quickly set up tents. The encampment came less than a day after PSC was suspended from the campus. Incredible video from Just yesterday, Harvard University placed the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) under suspension. Less than 24 hours later, students launched a Gaza solidarity encampment. THE MORE THEY TRY TO SILENCE US THE LOUDER WE WILL BE "There is only one solution: Intifada, revolution," the protesters chanted in a video posted by Harvard Chabad. Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi called on the university to remove the "Jew haters and Hamas lovers" violating the campus code of conduct. "I’m hearing from first-year students who, while studying for exams in their dorm room, are being confronted with terrifying chants of globalize the Intifada - a call for the murder of Jews," said Zarchi in a post on X last Wednesday. "I’m now receiving calls from their parents who are frightened to learn that Hamas supporters are being allowed to camp out in Harvard Yard - in brazen defiance to the university’s explicit guidelines - and chant in support of terrorism and call for the murder of Jews." Activists also continued to call for revolution in front of Columbia University, according to a Within Our Lifetime video chanting, "New York to Gaza, long live the Intifada." New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov posted a video on Wednesday of a protester outside of the campus carrying a sign with a picture of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades member Zarakia Zubeidi, who had been involved in multiple shooting attacks on civilians. Journalist Leeroy Johnson published a video on Monday of a protester leading Columbia activists in a chant that meant, "Mother of the Shahid, I wish my mother was in your place." "This terrifies because they realize they can't do S**t to us," explained the protester. WOL leader Nerdeen Kiswani was also present in the video, leading a chant calling for an intifada. On Wednesday, Kiswani shared on social media a Monday letter from Columbia warning her that she was persona non grata on all Columbia property "due to alarming and concerning behavior." While American police action removed several encampments to join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Washington University in St. Louis for having cleared campuses, the National SJP call to action last Wednesday continued to spread onto new campuses on Thursday. On Wednesday, encampments were established at the University of New Mexico and Evergreen State College. Pro-Palestinian organizations said they would set up an encampment at Seattle's University of Washington. On Thursday, another Australian encampment was established at the University of Melbourne to join the camp at Sydney University. The international expansion also included a Sciences Po Paris encampment on Wednesday. Canada also has an encampment at the University of Alberta. The new encampments join campus occupations at Yale University, MIT, Tufts University, The New School, the University of Michigan, the University of Rochester, UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.  ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-25

heckled House Speaker on Wednesday as he visited the flashpoint of nationwide student demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza, even as the New York school agreed to 48 more hours of negotiations to end a protest encampment. Johnson's visit, which he said was meant to support Jewish students intimidated by some anti-Israeli demonstrators, took place shortly after from Wednesday morning to Friday morning to reach an agreement to remove an encampment that had come to symbolize the campus protest movement. Some of the campus protests taking place coast to coast were met with shows of force from law enforcement. In Texas Wednesday, state highway patrol troopers in riot gear and police on horseback broke up a protest at the University of Texas in Austin and arrested 20 people, and campus police tore down tents at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Other demonstrations took place at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and California State Polytechnic in Humboldt.US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks at a news conference at Columbia University in response to Demonstrators protesting in support of Palestinians, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in New York City, US, April 24, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/JEENAH MOON) Protesting students have demanded universities divest assets from Israel and seek to pressure the US government to rein in Israeli strikes on Palestinian civilians. Israel's fierce response followed the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists, which controls the Gaza enclave. Johnson's rhetoric describes groups of protesters as mobs and the campus as chaotic, contrasted with scenes at Columbia Wednesday of students going to class, eating salads from cardboard takeout bowls, and checking their phones. The at-times vulgar heckling and booing that greeted Johnson did not drown him out, though he was hard to hear because he spoke to media microphones, not through loudspeakers. "As Columbia has allowed these lawless radicals and agitators to take over, the virus of antisemitism has spread across other campuses," Johnson said from the steps of the university library, calling on violent protesters to be arrested and threatening to cut off federal funding to universities that fail impose order. Johnson, whose job as House Speaker has been threatened by ultraconservative Republicans in his caucus, could have expected a cold welcome from students on a New York City campus known as a liberal bastion. In a politically polarized country, conservatives can score points by being seen as standing up to liberal activists, many of whom say the Republican portrayals of anti-semitic violence on campus are greatly exaggerated for political purposes. Johnson also met with Jewish students who said they were fearful of coming onto the campus, citing testimony from Jewish students who said they had been spat on and seen swastikas drawn on the walls. As Johnson spoke on the library steps, protesters at the encampment nearby appeared to pay little attention. Students at the encampment say their protest has been peaceful and that outsiders not connected with their movement are behind any inflammatory confrontations off-campus. "We regret that there's no attention on this peaceful movement and politicians are diverting attention from the real issues," said Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia who has been part of the negotiations with school administration over the protests though he has not stayed at the camp. "This is academic freedom, this is freedom of speech." Free speech advocates PEN America called the sudden escalation at the University of Texas "deeply alarming." "The administration should be doing everything in their power to keep their students safe and the campus operating, but calling the state police to disperse a peaceful protest that had barely begun does the opposite," Kristen Shahverdian, PEN's campus free speech program director, said in a statement. The political reverberations reached the White House, where press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden believes free speech, debate, and nondiscrimination are important on college campuses. "We want to see this be peaceful," Jean-Pierre said in Wednesday's press briefing. "It is important that students feel safe ... It should not be violent, it should not be hateful rhetoric." ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-08

أصبح من الممكن الآن رؤية كسوف كلي للشمس من الولايات المتحدة، حيث يجتاح المشهد السماوي الدرامي أمريكا الشمالية. سيستغرق ظل القمر ساعة و8 دقائق ليعبر البلاد من تكساس إلى ماين، ويمر عبر أجزاء من 15 ولاية. Was cool to see the eclipse from Austin. ~27 years before it happens here again. وأدى الكسوف الكلي إلى إظلام السماء في كيرفيل بولاية تكساس، حيث تجمع حشد كبير من مراقبي الكسوف، بما في ذلك سي إن إن وناسا، في الساعة 2:32 بعد الظهر. وبينما كان الطقس غائما، هتف الجمهور وصفقوا خلال لحظات عندما صفوت السماء، وكشفوا عن المنظر الملحمي. وبعد ذلك جاءت المدن والبلدات في الغرب الأوسط، وكانت إنديانابوليس وكليفلاند من بين الأماكن التي شهد المشاهدون فيها إثارة الكسوف الكلي. ومن المتوقع أن ينتهي الكسوف على ساحل المحيط الأطلسي في نيوفاوندلاند بكندا عند الساعة 5:16 مساءً. بالتوقيت المحلي (3:46 مساءً بالتوقيت الشرقي). وأصبحت مازاتلان، الواقعة على ساحل المحيط الهادئ في المكسيك، أول مدينة تتعرض للكسوف الكلي في وقت سابق من يوم الإثنين. تحقق لمعرفة كيف سيبدو الكسوف ومتى سيظهر فوق منطقتك باستخدام خريطتنا. وسيشاهد أولئك الموجودون على طول الخط الأوسط لمسار الكسوف الكلي كسوفًا يستمر ما بين 3.5 إلى 4 دقائق، وفقًا لوكالة ناسا. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-02-29

Israel won’t tolerate , Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told US Secretary of State Lloyd Austin amid the Biden admiration fears that Israel would launch a summer campaign against the Iranian proxy group. “The State of Israel will not tolerate threats against its citizens and violations of its sovereignty and will take the measures required to ensure their security,” Gallant said late Wednesday night. Gallant detailed for Austin the “ongoing attacks conducted by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern communities,” according to the Defense Ministry. The conversation took place as an anonymous Biden administration official told CNN, “We are operating in the assumption that an Israeli military operation is in the coming months.” The official added that such an attack would not happen "imminently in the next few weeks but perhaps later this spring. An Israeli military operation is a distinct possibility.” DEFENSE MINISTER Yoav Gallant and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin hold a joint news conference at the Kirya in Tel Aviv, Monday (credit: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters) Last week, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby told reporters in Washington that the US doesn’t want "a second front” on Israel’s northern border. “We don't want to see the conflict widen and deepen. We don't want to see the fighting that has occurred between Hezbollah and Israeli Defense Forces up in the north continue; we certainly don't want to see it become more aggressive.  “We're going to continue our conversations with our Israeli counterparts, continue our conversations with Lebanese counterparts as well, about not letting the tensions up there boil over to the point where it truly does deepen and widen the conflict in a way that could alleviate any kind of pressure on Hamas. And I think I'll just need to leave it at that,” Kirby said. Cross-border violence between the IDF and on Israel in October along the country’s southern border but has not escalated to the point where it is considered an all-out war. The US and France are working on a diplomatic solution by which Hezbollah would agree to withdraw to the Litani River, leaving a buffer zone, in that southern area of its country. Such a move would be in keeping with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, approved in 2006, which set the ceasefire terms that ended the Second Lebanon. That resolution mandates that the Lebanese army is the only armed group that can be in that border area and that the existence of any armed non-state actor, such as Hezbollah, is in violation of those ceasefire terms.  Over 50,000 Israelis were evacuated from the country's northern border on October 7 and the IDF has not set a date by which it would be safe for them to return. ...قراءة المزيد

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