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Burning questions

As news of crackdowns on U.S. campus protests spread, students in Ireland drew inspiration and planned a strategic path to victory.

The massive presence of police and violence that ensued at City College of New York on April 30 was not seen at CUNY colleges in 1969; it was not seen during building takeovers during the 1980s and 1990s, and it should not be seen today.

Education subsidy funding changes sparked mass protests. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table. Those in power fear students organizing alongside unions and social organizations.

My most important training came outside the classroom, as a student activist. As I look at the surge of student organizing aimed at stopping the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, participation in such movements can have a long-term impact...

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Matters of life and death

I have never understood the trope that Israel made generous offers to the Palestinians (it never did) but that the Palestinians rejected them, and therefore the Palestinians should be deprived of all their basic rights forever.

The president of Wesleyan University explains why he’s allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to pitch tents on campus.

Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza.