On Sunday, father-and-son gunmen armed with shotguns killed 15 people and injured 40 more at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Their target was Chanukah by the Sea, an annual event run by the Chabad of Bondi. The dead include a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi, and a 10-year-old girl. It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, a tragedy that reshaped the nation.
UC Berkeley has agreed to pay $60,000 to Israeli sociologist Yael Nativ, who says she was not rehired because of her Israeli identity during Gaza protests in 2022, despite her class's popularity. Chancellor Rich Lyons on Wednesday issued an apology to Yael Nativ, a visiting professor who was found in a campus investigation to have been the victim of discrimination, the Los Angeles Times reported. She is also invited to teach her class in a semester of her choosing.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed that the ignorance of young people and their consumption of content on social media is responsible for their opposition to Israel and its genocide in Gaza, blaming "made up" propaganda on Tuesday while speaking at a conference held by a far right Israeli publication. In remarks on Tuesday, Clinton said that the sentiments among young people following the October 7, 2023, attack are a "serious problem for democracy"
KATSEYE singer Lara Raj has responded to viral backlash after she stated that Noah Schnapp's Stranger Things character Will Byers "looks hot" in the show's fifth season. In a TikTok video posted following the premiere of the first four episodes of Stranger Things season five, the 20-year-old "Gnarly" singer described the show as a "cinematic masterpiece". "And Will looks so hot," she added. "He looks so hot in that last scene - I'm like, period! You're giving."
This wakes me up at night. They're telling me what it is that I've done with my life, and what I should do next, and that what I think is meaningless. People want to take what I've done that means so much to millions of people and wipe me out. But this is not theirs to take from me - and I don't consider I'm a bad person.
Today is Friday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2025. There are 75 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 17,1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Also on this date: In 1777, British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, New York, in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities, In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
A Forever War is a powerful investigation into the war on Gaza, challenging Israel's response to the Hamas-led attacks in October 2023. Global condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza recently echoed around the United Nations, where many states continued to label it genocide. Yet Israel has largely ignored international opinion, even pressure from the United States. With a ceasefire now on the table just days before the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, this film examines
No, I'm not going to switch, Fetterman told her. He then said he will never turn to incendiary language, like some left-wingers have by comparing President Donald Trump and Republican voters in general to Nazis. If you want a Democrat that's going to call people Nazis or fascists or all these kinds of things, well, I'm not going to be that guy. Independent thinking and views wherever I happen to believe the truth [is], regardless if it's the Republican or the Democratic voice.
Unilever and Ben & Jerry's have clashed since 2021, when the Vermont-based company said it would stop sales in the occupied West Bank as doing so was inconsistent with our values. The brand has since sued its parent company over alleged efforts to silence it and described Israel's war on Gaza as genocide, a rare stance for a big US company.
Board members of the state broadcaster RTVE voted in majority favour of boycotting the contest if Israel is among the countries fielding an entry next year. It makes Spain the first of the big five Eurovision countries that make the largest financial contributions to the event the others are France, Germany, Italy, and the UK to take such action in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza.
Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, made the announcement of the UN inquiry to Al Jazeera on Tuesday. We've identified the president [Isaac Herzog], the Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and the former minister of defence [Yoav Gallant] based on their statements and the orders that they've given, Pillay said in an interview.
The trade deal von der Leyen signed with Donald Trump in July was an unequal bargain, decried by right and left as a humiliation for Europe. Russia escalated its attacks on Ukraine, while EU leaders were left wincing at the spectacle of Trump's red carpet welcome for Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Israel's war on Gaza continued relentlessly, killing more than 64,000 people and bringing famine to the strip,
Former winner Charlie McGettigan praises decision of broadcaster to pull Ireland out of contest over war in Gaza. The Netherlands is the latest country to say it will not participate in the 2026 Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete. In a statement on its website, the Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS said it could "no longer justify Israel's participation in the current situation, given the ongoing and severe human suffering in Gaza".
Free Palestine is, to me, just you're free to say you don't like Jews. Just say you don't like Jews, the 71-year-old comedian said on stage, according to the Duke University Chronicle. By saying Free Palestine', you're not admitting what you really think, he continued. So it's actually compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I'm actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, We don't like Blacks, we don't like Jews.' OK, that's honest.
Qatar has hosted Hamas's political office since 2012, after what Qatari officials say were requests from the United States. The Gulf nation of Qatar has long served as a mediator, both in the Middle East and further afield. The country has good relations with nations that oppose each other, such as the United States and Iran, and therefore serves as a location where conversations can happen between adversaries.
The two conservative commentators were discussing the Middle East when Knowles mentioned Saint Porphyrius, a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza, which had been damaged by Israeli strikes in October 2023 and in July 2024. I don't understand it. I think it's self-destructive behavior, Carlson said. What I care about is the effect on Christians and that's just not good at all. Knowles, a moment before, said he believed the strike which reportedly killed 18 people, according to Palestinian officials was accidental.
The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of around 20 boats with participants from 44 countries, chose to return and delay its departure to "prioritise safety", a statement said. Facing winds of more than 35 miles per hour, some of the smaller boats taking part in the mission would have been at risk, it said. The flotilla is the largest attempt yet to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory by sea.
Until the first half of 2025, she had worked in Jerusalem doing advocacy on the occupied Palestinian territories for a large aid organization with its headquarters in the United States. During that time, she would routinely have to fight for weeks on end to get a single statement published. Leadership, she told DW, would insist on watering down the language, deeming words such as "occupation," "blockade" and "accountability" too problematic.
