The wave of campus actions and police responses followed Columbia University's decision last week to call in the New York Police Department to clear protesters from campus. That call led to 108 arrests, infuriating students and supporters of Palestine across the country.
While college students have organized in opposition to Israel's actions--and, in this case, their own schools' investments in defense companies with ties to Israel--before, and have even done so since Hamas' attack on Oct. 7, we have not, until now, seen universities crack down so strongly on dissent related to the war in Gaza.
For institutions with long histories of encouraging debate and activism as part of free expression--at least in theory--it's been a remarkable turn.
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