Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity


by WDTN

WDTN— NEW YORK (AP) — As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters nationwide are demanding that schools cut financial ties []

Global News—U.S. schools shut down student anti-war encampments after antisemitic activity reports. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters are demanding that schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict.

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...

ABC News—Campus anti-war protesters dig in from New York to California. Protests against the war in Gaza are roiling college campuses nationwide