Tens of thousands of activists prepare protests over Gaza war at Democratic National Convention

Pro-Palestinian protesters are expected to gather outside the convention in Chicago seeking to influence party policy on Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

The Ideology Behind Campus Protests Is About More Than Israel

The theory of settler colonialism helped to inspire pro-Palestine activists, but its larger goal is to change the way Americans understand the history of their country.

The Radical Protesters Who Plan to ‘Shut Down the DNC for Gaza’

“Whether it’s Genocide Joe, or Killer Kamala, the butchers of Gaza cannot be allowed to gather in Chicago undisturbed,” the self-described anti-imperialist organization Behind Enemy Lines proclaimed in an Instagram post last month. It called for protesters to “make it great like ’68” and to “shut down the DNC for Gaza!” The group is coordinating with Palestine Action US, which encourages vandalism and other unlawful acts, and Samidoun, the “Palestinian prisoner solidarity network,” which cheered Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.

‘We can’t just vote’: protesters gather in Chicago for Gaza and abortion rights before Democratic convention

“But we can’t just vote. We have never been able to rely on a single politician of either party to deliver our rights, whether it’s been civil rights or removal of US forces from unpopular wars or the right to get an abortion in this country.”

Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying

At Columbia and other campuses I visited in New York and Washington, where smaller protests were held, what I saw and heard were young people burdened with an impossible moral load – the feeling that, as students in the universities of Israel’s most powerful ally, the responsibility for forcing a reassessment of the nation’s stance on Gaza now rested on their shoulders. And with that they carried the fear of all that could befall them as a result of tilting against powerful corporate, media and political interests.

Gaza college campus rallies face next challenge: Summer break

Just how much staying power the student demonstrations over the war in Gaza that have sprung up in Denver and at dozens of universities across the United States will have is a key question for protesters, school administrators and police, with graduation ceremonies being held, summer break coming and high-profile encampments dismantled.

The Appalling Tactics of the ‘Free Palestine’ Movement

In other words, the central, animating sentiment behind much of the protest movement is neither humanitarian nor liberationist. It’s eliminationist. And it expresses itself routinely in the tactics adopted by so many of its leading activists and followers.

The Growing Pro-Palestinian Protest Movement, Visualized

The intensity of protests on college campuses and other locations could mean they would continue through the summer at political conventions.

The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right

It is easy when looking backward to remember the fight for a good cause as pure and untainted, even if it did not seem so at the time. In the same way, we now remember the Vietnam War as an American tragedy. The students at Columbia University who protested it seem, in retrospect, to have been right. But our memories elide some of their more outré tactics. A list of popular chants employed by antiwar protesters at a time when thousands of American soldiers were dying each year fighting in the war included things like “One side’s right. One side’s wrong. We’re on the side of the Viet Cong!” and “Save Hanoi. Lose Saigon. Victory to the Viet Cong!”

What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about

Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus last week and have sparked demonstrations at other universities across the country. The demonstrations have resulted in some intense crackdowns and political scrutiny, all coming in the wake of recent congressional hearings on antisemitism on campus and amid an uptick in both antisemitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the US.

What’s Really Happening on College Campuses, According to Student Journalists

POLITICO Magazine asked leaders of campus news organizations to set the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the media is getting wrong. We’re in the midst of the most widespread campus unrest since the 1960s, sparked by the war between Israel and Hamas. \

When protest turns to hatred: There’s far too much antisemitism in the free Palestine movement

But far worse, outside the gates on Broadway, exercising their First Amendment right to spread hate under the watchful eyes of a great many NYPD cops, were a hardcore bunch of anti-Israel zealots (be they students or not), with their loud, nasty chants and their banging drums. Their message was that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a horrendous lie, and the world’s only Jewish state must be destroyed. It was a lot less pro-Palestinian than viciously anti-Israel and antisemitic. And so once again, the free Palestine movement is infected with antisemitism, the socialism of fools, an embarrassing and disgusting reality that they will not admit.

Where are the US college campus protests and what is happening?

Protest encampments have been set up on more than 80 campuses across the US over the Israel-Gaza war, with unrest flaring at some after police moved in to clear out protesters

Where college negotiations ended campus protest chaos

Deals between four universities and pro-Palestinian protesters offer a rough roadmap for schools seeking to defuse tensions and shut down encampments before commencement.