NEW YORK (AP) — A New York student is suing after high school officials painted over a parking spot that she had decorated with a watermelon slice — a symbol of support for Palestinians.

Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar last month for co-directing the documentary No Other Land, was beaten up by Israeli settlers who set upon his West Bank village of Susya on ...

The senior painted a watermelon slice featuring a keffiyeh scarf-like pattern ... The watermelon has long been a symbol of Palestinian solidarity as it contains the red, white and green colors ...

Long Island high school administrators painted over a student’s pro-Palestinian parking spot ... the teen added a picture of a watermelon with a keffiyeh pattern, her name in Arabic and ...

Monday's incident was the latest in which Israeli settlers have been accused of raiding Palestinian or Bedouin villages and encampments in the West Bank, sometimes to steal livestock. Palestinians ...