By Simmone Shah The global fashion company Zara has pulled a controversial ad campaign after pro-Palestine activists called for a boycott of the retailer. The campaign featured statues with missing limbs and mannequins wrapped in white sheets surrounded by rubble. Some activists said that the images were making light of the conflict. “They are making […]
By Eric Cortellessa As a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas ended Friday, with Hamas firing a barrage of rockets into Israel and the Israeli military renewing combat operations in the Gaza Strip, one thing became abundantly clear: The war won’t be ending any time soon. Despite a pause in fighting that stirred hope among […]
By Chad de Guzman Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been stood up. Rishi Sunak, his British counterpart, was scheduled to meet him on Tuesday for a 45-minute lunch. But after Mitsotakis reiterated Greece’s longstanding position to the BBC on Sunday that Britain must return the Elgin Marbles, Sunak canceled. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Elgin Marbles—a […]