Israel-Hamas war creates 'really fraught times' at Minnesota colleges

MINNEAPOLIS — Fadwa Wazwaz attended a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Minnesota recently and intentionally took a picture with a Jewish attendee to show they could coexist despite the war in the Gaza Strip.

"This has to stop," Wazwaz, a Palestinian U employee, said of the violence. Jewish student Jon Greenspan felt unnerved a couple weeks ago when his group, holding Israeli flags and pictures of people taken hostage by Hamas, was surrounded by a few dozen people.

He worried what might happen to Jewish students if no one spoke out and decided "that fear completely outweighs any other fears I have standing up for myself."

The war between Israel and Hamas, unfolding thousands of miles away, has reinvigorated a wave of activism on college campuses in Minnesota and across the nation.

—Star Tribune

Trump immunity protesters see ‘make-or-break moment for our republic’

WASHINGTON — The sidewalk outside the Supreme Court was dotted with more reporters than protesters Thursday morning as oral arguments in the Donald Trump immunity case played out inside.

Dozens of demonstrators banged drums, blared music and at times hurled insults at one another. But it was a relatively subdued gathering as the morning wore on, with supporters of the former president in the minority.

The larger contingent was composed of those supportive of Department of Justice special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith’s charges that Trump attempted to subvert the 2020 election. They hoped the Supreme Court would reject Trump’s claim of presidential immunity, even if many thought it was too late.

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