'It's a reflection of how much the war is upsetting students and the idea that the United States should be more cautious with what it does with its military aid,' says NYU history professor Robert Cohen.
History professors weigh in on the significance of student protests on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas war.Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread to colleges and universities across the country. In the San Francisco Bay Area, protest encampments have been set up at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Sonoma State just to name a few.
Cohen is a history and social studies professor at NYU who has studied student activism. He says that over the past 60-plus years, student protests are unpopular among Americans, many of whom are culturally conservative. He believes what we've seen over the last two weeks is historic."Never in the history of student protest have protests been suppressed with so little rule-breaking. In other words, the students at Columbia were sitting on a lawn.
"For example after the Cambodia invasion and the killing of students at Kent State, there was a national student strike and there were student protests at more than 800 colleges and universities. Here I think we're seeing many dozens, it's hard to know what the total number is," said Cortright.Saturday marks Day 3 of pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Stanford University. Here's a closer look at the school's ties and students' demands.
"Trying to get universities to divest their holdings in companies that do business with Israel is problematic because over 30 states have laws against that," said Cohen.
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