Attendants provide comments about cancelled cricket stadium, Palestine and DEI as one Mason professor reports receiving threatening voicemail BY ERICA MUNISAR, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF On April 2, a Board of Visitors public comment session was held as seven attendants spoke about the…
Palestinian student speaks of personal experiences, culture and GoFundMe to student body. BY ERICA MUNISAR, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Fourth Estate interviewed a Palestinian student at George Mason University who started a GoFundMe to help their family members in Gaza, Palestine. The student,…
SJP Mason unrolls large list of at least 5,000 names of deceased Palestinians during recent protest, expanding from the sixth floor balcony of Horizon Hall down to the second floor south entrance. BY ANDANI MUNKAILA, SOCIAL MEDIA AND GRAPHICS EDITOR…
BY SEAN CULLEY CONTRIBUTOR It seems like some people want to downplay Israeli success at all costs. Such is the case with Israel’s outstanding COVID-19 vaccination rollout. More than 60 percent of its population has received at least one dose…
BY SEAN CULLEY CONTRIBUTOR Israel has recently negotiated peace deals to normalize relations with several Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. Resolutions in both houses of Congress supporting the deals with the UAE and Bahrain had…
What Black-Palestinian solidarity can teach us about equality BY: NIKAYLA KIRCHNER, STAFF WRITER In this politically polarized American atmosphere, discussions about Palestinian-Israeli relations and black equality in the U.S. remain a controversial topic. On Nov. 7, Greg Burris, author and…
BY DAWSON WEINHOLD, STAFF WRITER The term “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” doesn’t do enough to describe the scale of the the events currently happening in the Levant. For those unfamiliar with the term, the Levant broadly refers to Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria,…
Members head to Congress to voice concerns BASMA HUMADI, MANAGING EDITOR Members of Mason’s Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) headed over to Congress last week to lobby against a bill that would allow for state governments to refuse to do…
Students studying abroad in Israel-Palestine this summer were forced to evacuate the region four weeks early. As airstrikes between Israel and Hamas began to intensify and violence escalated in Gaza, the university suspended the study abroad program. Yehuda Lukacs, the…