Conservatives must defend free expression, including rights of pro-Palestinian protesters


by The Hill

The Hill— The freedom to protest against American foreign policy decisions is pretty much exactly what the First Amendment is all about.

ABC11 Raleigh-Durham—UNC Palestine Protest: After arrests, pro-Palestinian protesters remove US flag, put up Palestinian flag on campus quad. Pro-Palestinian protesters removed the American flag from UNC's quad on Tuesday afternoon and replaced it with the Palestinian one in what was the latest disruptive incident on campus.

San Antonio Current—War of Words: Did UTSA violate pro-Palestinian protesters' First Amendment rights?. The University of Texas at San Antonio has been the site pro-Palestinian protests over recent weeks as student activists demand the administration divest from companies doing business with the Israeli government. Although UTSA's demonstrations have remained overwhelmingly peaceful, activists told the Current that an unidentified administrator warned students and organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation ahead of the campus' Wednesday, April 24, protest that the school...

National Review—Biden Says Pro-Palestinian Protesters Have No ‘Right to Cause Chaos’ on U.S. Campuses. ‘Destroying property is not a peaceful protest, it’s against the law,’ Biden said weeks after an anti-Israel encampment sprang up at Columbia University.