Farrah Maswadeh doesn’t wish to live in the United States anymore. As a 25-year-old Palestinian American who grew up in Jordan and now lives in Gainesville, she said she was disgusted to live in the country after seeing the behavior of U.S. news outlets and people around her during the …
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Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the University of Florida on Monday evening to call for the de-occupation of Palestinian territories. Laila Fakhoury, a Palestinian business owner, led the protest near the northwest entrance to the University of Florida campus near Heavener Hall using a megaphone to rally the crowd’s chants for …
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Melissa Meadows stood before members of the School Board of Alachua County Tuesday to weigh in on the proposed new districtwide school zones. “This is my son, Ansel,” Meadows, a parent of a third-grade Littlewood Elementary School student, said to the School Board members. “He’s physically disabled.” Meadows said her …
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Fatima Bennett is an Ocala resident who eats a halal-only diet. She said in Ocala it takes her 20 minutes to get to the closest market with halal meat, and that prices are higher in Ocala than in Gainesville. But to get lower-priced halal meat in Gainesville, she said she …
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