Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
From Cambridge to Los Angeles and in dozens of cities in between, college campuses are being roiled by protest against American financial and military support for Israel ’s war in Gaza —and by university actions, including mass arrests, to suppress the demonstrators. There hasn’t been a college protest movement as widespread since the Vietnam War.
writers Neil Shah and Tilly Robinson see conflicting interpretations at the heart of the turmoil on their campus.Harvard student protesters demand their university’s divestment from Israel. But a statement that apparently embraced Hamas’s tactics has become a flash point on campus and nationally.“To say that speech is antisemitic is not to say that the speech should be banned,” the former Harvard president says. But leaders have an obligation “to set a moral tone.
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