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Movie Review: "Palestine "36" brings endurance, pride and defiance to the screen at Gateway Film Center Friday
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (395+ words) Palestine "36" opens at Gateway Film Center Friday. Credit: Courtesy of Watermelon Pictures Palestine "36," a period drama directed by Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, is the only feature film to have been shot in Palestine in the past two years. The film…...
Pro-Palestinian group calls for university forum on the war in Gaza
19+ hour, 38+ min ago (258+ words) Deborah Lipstadt speaks at the w OSU building on Wednesday. Credit: Reegan Davis | Lantern Reporter Members of Staff and Faculty for Justice in Palestine have called for a university-sponsored forum on the war in Gaza after the Office of Academic…...
Ohio State student, staff member arrested protesting pro-Israel event
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (472+ words) Ohio State has confirmed that the two people arrested protesting a pro-Israel event on Tuesday were a student and an administrative staff member. Dan Hedman, a university spokesperson, confirmed their affiliation to the university in an email Wednesday and said…...
Physicians who provided aid in Gaza share stories on a medical panel
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (1677+ words) Dr. Ihab Halaweish speaks at a medical panel hosted by Ohio State's PCRF chapter on Thursday. Credit: Courtesy of the PCRF The room fell silent and every gaze fixed on the screen as images flashed by. Four physicians discussed their…...
Ohio State student commuters impacted by rising gas prices amid Iran war
2+ week, 2+ day ago (432+ words) Delaney Kerstetter said she commutes 45 miles from Newark to Columbus four days a week this semester, a trip that normally costs her about $80 a week. The fourth-year in journalism and John R. Oller Special Projects Editor for The Lantern, said the…...
Hamas hostage spoke on his experience to students and community in a Tuesday event
3+ week, 2+ day ago (613+ words) Omer Shem Tov, an Israeli who was held hostage by Hamas for 505 days, speaks at the Ohio Union's Archie Griffin Ballroom on Tuesday. Credit: Courtesy of Lorn Spolter Former Hamas hostage and Nova Music Festival survivor, Omer Shem-Tov spoke to…...
Uncensored America comes to Ohio State, spreads anti-semitic, sexist rhetoric
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (1163+ words) Anti-semitism, controversial statements about women and debates on the Israel-Gaza conflict filled the Browning Amphitheater during an Uncensored America event on Wednesday." Over 200 people, mostly men, gathered to hear Myron Gaines, a co-host of the controversial "Fresh & Fit" podcast and…...
Ohio State professor on administrative leave after assaulting journalist
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (576+ words) An Ohio State professor was placed on administrative leave following a physical confrontation with a cameraman attempting to interview former Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee. Luke Perez, an assistant professor at the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society,…...
Movie Review: Cherien Dabis shares the untold history of Palestinians in exile in "All That's Left of You
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (690+ words) I am the sea / In my depths all treasures dwell / Have the divers asked about my pearls?" " Hafiz Ibrahim. This poem is echoed throughout the quietly devastating film that is All That's Left of You," which premieres in Columbus at…...
Israeli Consul for Public Diplomacy visits with Ohio State Provost to discuss constructive interactions on campus while combatting antisemitism
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (630+ words) An Israeli consul met with Ohio State's Vice President and Provost Ravi Bellamkonda and others Monday to discuss campus issues, including battling antisemitism. The Consulate General of Israel in New York serves to "[represent] the State of Israel in New…...