As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests, hoping to tamp down a spiraling movement that has inflamed passions on all sides.
Experts reached back to student protests against South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s and, even further to the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early '70s for comparisons. Nothing since then has come close to this sort of disciplinary crack down.
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