Many college campuses nationwide have seen encampments and demonstrations of their own – but why?
Iman Jodeh While we may not agree on everything, we must remain focused on our central goals: saving lives in Gaza, ending weapons funding for Israel, and advancing freedom for Palestinians.
At many college campuses, students are protesting in opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconditional backing, with weapons and diplomatic cover, of Netanyahu’s continuing serial war crimes slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, most of them children and women. Hundreds of faculty members are defending these valiant youngsters and criticizing excessively harsh crackdowns More
Helen Benedict The real threat to American Jews comes not from students but from the MAGA Republicans who are shouting about antisemitism the loudest.
Four years after COVID disrupted high school graduations, many college seniors are looking forward to their first real commencement. Student protests are forcing some to adjust their expectations.
Protesters angry at the lack of progress in the case of the 43 missing students threw firecrackers.
Dutch universities have agreed not to negotiate with students who cover their faces and will ban students from sleeping on the premises, pending the finalisation of a new protocol to deal with pro-Palestine protests. Protests have been ongoing at several universities for more than a week and riot police were drafted in to break up demonstrations in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The University of Amsterdam’s rector Peter-Paul Verbeek had earlier complained that negotiations with students had been made...
Esther Sun For months, thousands have flooded the country’s streets in protest. But students say that the surge of encampments in America helped increase actions at Jordanian universities.
The police were active in both Amsterdam and Utrecht on Tuesday evening as several hundred demonstrators took to the streets to show their support for Palestine and to call for an end to the hostilities. In Utrecht, the police broke up a gathering of around 150 students next to the university’s main library who had set up tents and erected barricades in the late afternoon. Some of them refused to leave and around 50 people were arrested shortly after midnight.
The notion of student protest perceived as an essential element of higher education, as presented in Serge Schmemann’s article (“Student protest an essential element of higher education,” Star-Advertiser, Insight, May 1) is intriguing — seeing disruption as a byproduct that also shapes and enhances education. Long engendered both by feelings of shame and an extension of the educational process, discourse and debate of issues, there was a rise in social service, idealism and faith in change.
Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including six students at the University of Pennsylvania, were arrested after attempting to occupy a hall on the university campus late Friday.The protesters were arrested around 9pm after trying to take over Fisher-Bennett Hall but had been met with a response from university and Philadelphia police, according to reports....
The college has not dropped the fine against the SU however.