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A man accused of stabbing a 23-year-old Palestinian American in West Campus near the University of Texas at Austin was indicted on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge, according to a Travis County District Attorney's Office press release.

Anti-Palestinian violence is not “on the other side of the globe.” It’s here in Austin, too.

On Thursday, hundreds gathered at the Raytheon campus in Richardson to protest the war in Palestine and demand the company supplying Israel with weapons.

America is under assault, and, in the 9th year since Trump burst on the political scene, it’s happening so often now that it’s becoming normalized. This is a very real danger to the survival of our republic. And they’re getting more brazen: this past weekend a group of mask-clad Nazis marched throug...

Mayor Kirk Watson condemned last week’s attack after a pro-Palestine rally, while warning against a ceasefire resolution.

Zacharia Doar, 23, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is now recovering from surgery

Doar tells WFAA that Baker likely saw the Palestinian scarf hanging on the truck and that made them a target.

Doar tells WFAA that Baker likely saw the Palestinian scarf hanging on the truck and that made them a target.

The stabbing of Zacharia Doar, a 23-year-old Palestinian American, near the University of Texas, has been classified as a hate crime.Bert James Baker, 36, allegedly approached Doar's truck, yelled racial slurs and physically assaulted Doar before stabbing him.Baker was arrested for the attack and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The stabbing of

The Austin Police Department announced it's classifying the stabbing at West Campus earlier this week as a hate crime.The department's hate crimes review commit