The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest – Winnipeg Free Press
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Administrators on some campuses have called in local police to break up pro-Palestinian protesters demanding that their schools divest from Israel in demonstrations that Israel's allies say are antisemitic and make campuses unsafe. From Columbia University in New York to the University of California, Los Angeles, thousands of students and faculty have been arrested in the past month.
Colleges and universities have been protected places for free expression but protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza are testing that ideal.
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War.
Experts say trust is lost when universities call in outside police to break up encampments