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Students booed Jerry Seinfeld during his commencement address at Duke University on May 12 and dozens walked out of the ceremony in protest over the American comedian's vocal support for Israel in its genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza

Israeli soldiers used three Palestinian minors as human shields during their raids on buildings in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on May 5 and 6, as documented by the Geneva-based rights group Defense for Children International.

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“When we were faced with the destruction as a nation, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons” US Senator Lindsey Graham says the US administration should give Israel all the bombs it needs in its war on Gaza.

“The Zionist enemy is breaking all international and humanitarian laws. There is no place for patients and injured to go to except this hospital.” The director of Kuwait Speciality Hospital in Gaza calls for international protection for the patients as the Israeli army threatens the hospital.

The Egyptian foreign ministry announced that it plans to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice that seeks to demonstrate evidence of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and impose provisional measures against Tel Aviv. This comes after Tel Aviv intensified its attacks on eastern Rafah, Gaza’s southern border with Egypt. Earlier this month, Türkiye had also announced that it would join South Africa’s case, stating that Israel blatantly violates the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Read more: http://trt.world/vdvz

Israel’s Eden Golan faced loud boos at the Eurovision Grand Final in Malmo, Sweden, amid protests against Israel’s participation. Eurovision Executive Supervisor Martin Osterdahl was also booed and jeered while announcing the Netherlands’ disqualification

At least 35,000 people have been killed by Israel in its war on Palestine’s Gaza since last October. Seventy percent of them have been babies, children and women, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health

Billionaire Kenneth Griffin urged his old university Harvard to focus on “Western values,” saying college campus chaos is part of a “cultural revolution” in US education. Griffin, the founder of US hedge fund Citadel, told the Financial Times that US education has drifted away from its goal of seeking truth and knowledge in the past decade. “Harvard should put front and centre (that it) stands for meritocracy in America,” Griffin said, adding that schools should “embrace Western values that have built one of the greatest nations in the world.” He has previously stopped donations to Harvard due to dissatisfaction with its handling of anti-Semitism issues on campus. He also mentioned that the current campus protests are the result of a major shift in American education, framing it as a battle between oppressors and the oppressed. He described these protests as almost like “performative art.”

Authorities declared a state of emergency in Afghanistan after more than 200 people were killed in flash flooding in the country, with Baghlan being one of the hardest hit provinces.