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The professor charged with manslaughter in the death of an elderly Jewish man at dueling Israel-Palestine protests in Thousand Oaks last year will stand trial, a judge announced Wednesday.

Officials at UC Berkeley say they have identified eight of the 12 people arrested on Thursday at the anti-war encampment next to Peoples Park. They say only one was a student.

Officers have arrested at least 12 Gaza war protesters on Thursday, who took over a vacant building near UC Berkeley's campus one day earlier, university officials say. 

The president of Sonoma State University announced his retirement on Friday, days after he was put on leave promising pro-Palestinian protesters a review of the university's investments and an “academic boycott" of educational programs connected to Israeli institutions.

The UC Berkeley political science grad had scathing words for the president, saying Biden has "the blood of innocent people on his hands," and that she can "no longer in good conscience continue to represent the administration in [Biden's] disastrous, continued support for Israel's genocide in Gaza."

The Sonoma State University President has been placed on administrative leave after sending a school-wide email making promises to student protestors without the proper approval.

For many Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area, seeing the rise in civilian deaths from the war in Gaza is deeply personal, and especially difficult as Wednesday marks the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, which forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee from their homes in what they call Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic.

Student protesters at San Francisco State University say they've reached an agreement with the school's president on the issue of Gaza and are beginning to dismantle their encampment.  

One day after pro-Palestinian protesters began to dismantle their encampment on UC Berkeley's campus, another protest popped up at a vacant building owned by the school that is near campus. 

Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76 years ago.

A pro-Palestine mural that was vandalized at least six times before was defaced again, this time with hateful and threatening antisemitic remarks that said "Kill the Jews." 

Student protesters defied a University of San Francisco deadline to clear their anti-war protest encampment in the center of campus by 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have begun dismantling their encampment on UC Berkeley's campus on Tuesday. 

Pro-Palestinian activists gathered on Tuesday, during the morning keynote address at Google's flagship developers conference.

Protesters are calling on a Bay Area congressmember to stop funding the war in Gaza.

Protesters say they want the university to be more transparent about its financial investments and to fully divest over Gaza conflict.