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Managed Extinguishment: Husic, Debating Gaza and the ALP Conference

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] UNRWA Photo by Shareef Sarhan The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party that they were going too far.  The concerns – a nice dollop of political interference in the affairs of a supposedly sovereign state – came ahead of the national conference of the ALP that promised to emphasise certain unwanted themes in its draft platform. Ahead of the July 23-25 meeting in Adelaide, the draft document reiterated the party’s support for the two-state solution “as the only path towards a future where Palestinians and Israelis…

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Court Quashes Subpoenas to Anti-Defamation League in ASU Pro-Palestine Student Protest Case

Political Spin

[ad_1] From Thursday’s opinion by Judge John Tuchi (D. Ariz.) in Campos v. Ariz. Bd. of Regents: On April 26, 2024, Plaintiffs participated in a pro-Palestine student protest. As relevant here, in the days leading up to the protest, “Defendants engaged in extensive communication and preparation … externally with … affiliates of political organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League [(“ADL”)] … all with the goal of preventing or squashing any public demonstrations against the use of public assets to fund the genocide in Gaza or affiliation with pro-Zionist entities that might take place at [Arizona State University (“ASU”)] or any…

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Court Expresses Doubt About Lawprof’s Attempt to Block Appointment of Federal Judge as U Kentucky Law School Dean

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] From Woodcock v. Van Tatenhove (E.D. Ky.), decided Friday by Judge Benjamin Beaton (W.D. Ky.): Professor Ramsi Woodcock, currently suspended from his teaching duties at the University of Kentucky School of Law, has sued to block former U.S. District Judge Greg Van Tatenhove from serving as the law school’s dean. In his view, hiring a judge rather than a tenured professor to lead the school precludes the law faculty from expressing to the outside world that their scholarship is the product of a peer-reviewed search for truth. This abridges the faculty’s collective right to associate around a shared message,…

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India’s Gen Z Flexed Its Power and Won

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Sumita Roy Dutta – CC BY-SA 4.0 Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify for medical schools and highly coveted government jobs. The Gen Z protesters won a major victory within a matter of weeks when Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 25, 2026, bowing to their demands. The student movement was triggered by an inadvertent insult by India’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Surya Kant, who, in May, referred to unemployed Indian youth as parasites and cockroaches. Kant’s words caught the attention of a young Indian man…

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