The Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza
Students protest to support Gaza outside the Israeli consulate in New York City by Joe Catron is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 / Flickr By Helen Benedict / TomDispatch Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off