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Hadas Thier — Global outrage over Israel’s attacks on Gaza has produced a broad-based mass movement never before witnessed on the question of Palestine.

At the University of Pennsylvania, approval for the screening of a documentary critical of Israel was denied. At Brandeis University — which expressed a public commitment to free speech — a pro-Palestinian student group was barred for statements made by its national chapter. At the University of Vermont, a Palestinian poet was set to deliver a talk, but the school pulled the meeting space after students complained he was antisemitic. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times The

On Tuesday Dec. 5, Jewish university students organized a rally and press conference in protest of a Congressional hearing on antisemitism.

Colleges across the country have screened the documentary Israelism, but it caused controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Hunter College in New York. A documentary about two young Jewish Americans who question their loyalty to Israel after traveling to the country and the West Bank has become a flash point in the academic freedom debates consuming some college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The Chavurah group at Penn faces discipline after showing a film critical of Israel.