A look at the protests about the war in Gaza that have emerged on US college campuses
by WTOP
WTOP— Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.
MSNBC—Why anti-war protests on college campuses don't compare to 1968's Vietnam War protests. Perhaps the most challenging thing about having written a book about the 1968 presidential election is that every time there is political violence or student protests in America, people compare those events to that ill-fated year — and they are pretty much always wrong. Take, for example, the increasingly omnipresent talk about how the pro-Palestinian anti-war protests roiling American college campuses today bear similarity to those protests 56 years ago opposing the war in Vietnam. Sen. Bernie...
Washington Examiner—Gaza war not a leading issue for college students despite campus protests. Anti-Israel protests regarding the war in Gaza have erupted at college campuses across the country, but polling shows it is not a top issue for most people attending university. A Generation Lab poll shared with Axios shows the war in Gaza ranks at the bottom among top issues for college students. The survey shows only […]
Rappler—EXPLAINER: How US campus protests over Gaza differ from Vietnam war era. The campus protests over the past two weeks differ in both scale and motivation