Student Palestine Protesters School Their Universities
Sarah Jones writes that by protesting for Palestine, students are asking universities to live up to the ideals they profess on paper.
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Sarah Jones writes that by protesting for Palestine, students are asking universities to live up to the ideals they profess on paper.
Last week, the congressional spotlight fell on Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, who followed the acts of Claudine Gay (formerly Harvard’s president) and Elizabeth Magill (formerly Penn’s). Gay and Magill were asked to speak in December to a House committee about their schools’ climates since October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and Israel […]
The mayor said people have the right to protest, but was not pleased with the chaos that some protesters caused.
And for decades, schools have tried to crack down on that activism.
Columbia University president testified to Congress last week about pro-Palestinian protests on their campus