Reports from Various Campuses – April 28, 2024 – click here
Nothing like Spring to bring out student activism. So mote it ever be!
2024 sees a wave of protest of the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. Like the anti-Apartheid movement in the 1980s, the key demand is that Universities and their various billion-dollar endowments divest from criminal regimes.
The tactics are classic Occupy (and also echo the “shanty-towns” of the Apartheid protests) – set up a highly visible, round-the-clock encampment and let the authorities create your publicity.
With an ineptitude matched only by the Republican Congressional Caucus, administrators at one campus after another have blundered into confrontations that spotlight the protests.
A challenge for these protests – dealing with anti-Semitism – never far from the surface in American politics.
Personally, when I (a goy) am involved in protests of Israel’s policies, I take my lead from Jewish Voice for Peace.
Photo – Columbia University – by Lev Radin/Crooked.com
