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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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A student conceals their face with a sign displaying the Palestinian flag during a protest organized by Students for Justice in Palestine on Friday. The protest called on Boston University to divest funds from companies supporting Israel. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Students protest for BU to divest, call for cease-fire in Gaza

George Lehman February 20, 2024
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine called for a ceasefire in Gaza and the divestment of BU funding from companies supporting Israel on Friday in a march from Marsh Chapel to the Office of the President at 1 Silber Way.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

On posting your politics | On the Record

Addison Schmidt October 18, 2023
This day and age, everyone is expected to post their politics on social media whenever there's a major event, but this often oversimplify complex situations and serves as a poor substitute for real activism.
The Young Democratic Socialists of America held a town hall March 20. The meeting aimed to build solidarity between students, alumni and faculty in attendance as they listened to activists from multiple student organizations speak. BAYLE VINES/DFP STAFF

Student, faculty activists share roadblocks, achievements at YDSA town hall

Fiona Broadie March 22, 2022
Representatives from BU SJP, SRF and 'Q' shared their frustrations at the administration and updates on their activism.
David Makovsky, former senior advisor on Secretary of State John Kerry's Israeli-Palestinian peace team, speaks at The Florence & Chafetz Hillel House at BU Tuesday evening about "Seeking Justice: Strengthening the Prospect for Middle East Peace” PHOTO BY KELSEY CRONIN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Former advisor encourages conversations, resolve Middle Eastern conflict

Monika Nayak January 27, 2016

As conflicts in the Middle East amplify, it’s important for college students to start having healthy discourse surrounding the issue, David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace...

NEMINSKI: We must stand with Israel

NEMINSKI: We must stand with Israel

Mike Neminski November 20, 2014

The acts of terror in Israel Tuesday, in which five people — four of them rabbis and one a police officer — were murdered by two Palestinians in an attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue, have been the...

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