On October 8, 2025, it was announced that a deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas on the exchange of hostages and prisoners in return for an eventual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. The deal is set to be a multi-part one, with a full ceasefire, partial pullback of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, a hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas, and increased aid to the strip being part of it.
Read MorePro-Palestinian students, protesters, and organizations have faced an enormous wave of censorship since October 7th. Pro-Palestinian groups have been barred from college campuses, pro-Palestinian students have been blacklisted and had job offers rescinded, and university presidents have lost their jobs for defending pro-Palestinian students’ First Amendment rights. In a radical shift away from their purported belief in freedom of speech — and their fight to expose all Americans, particularly college students, to views that may be deemed controversial, offensive, or outright harmful — many on the American political Right have embarked on an aggressive campaign to silence pro-Palestinian speech.
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