Recent student protests are attempts to humanize the Palestinians in desperate need of a ceasefire. Students deserve a dignity-affirming dialogue, not the continued use of police brutality.
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Each side is righteously sensitive to any perceived hate speech from the other, but seems unwilling to limit their own punitive strategies or inflammatory language.
Nothing Hamas has done was comparable to October 7, and nothing Israel has done is comparable to what it continues to do since that day. Student protests, in this context, inspire a measure of hope.
The Canadian government’s refusal to include a description of anti-Palestinian racism sends the message that the struggles of Palestinians don’t matter.
Unless and until student encampments become an unreasonably severe disruption to the enjoyment of university spaces, there is no argument supporting state intervention.
Negotiations over a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling, in large part because of how the war has gone for both sides.
The situation in Gaza undoubtedly requires urgent international attention and a peaceful resolution. Yet it is not the only armed conflict or humanitarian crisis in the world.
Universities have a difficult balance to strike between protecting student speech rights and ensuring campus safety.
Israel’s tourism industry has taken a hit since the start of the war, and it may never fully recover.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
Students protesting at US campuses don’t reflect the majority view in the country.
Australian universities have long been a site of protest. Today’s students join this legacy of activists who helped shape higher education and the Australian cultural landscape.
Washington isn’t a state that typically comes to mind in discussions about student-led protests from the Civil Rights Movement. A Black history professor seeks to change that with a new book.
Where both capacity and integrity are weak, dysfunction is inevitable.
Student violence is a response to the devaluing and oppressive environment in boarding schools.
South Africa’s economic challenges and the high number of students from poor and working class families call for a funding model that doesn’t create an affordability crisis for students and the state.
South Africans deserve a fuller picture of the extent of police brutality, and the level of accountability, especially when people die at the hands of police.
Instead of being a democratic right and legitimate form of expression, protests have increasingly been framed as threats to national security.
The Hunger Games salute, teabags and Pepe the Frog are being adopted by young pro-democracy activists across south-east Asia.
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