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The right-wing hysteria about, and some university leaders’ over-reaction to, college students’ protests about what’s happening in Gaza has obviously been in the news.
I thought readers might find it useful to see some tweets that might help the rest of us understand what’s going on.
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Gen-Z sees the Gaza protests as their 1968 moment: ‘We built this on their legacy’ is from The Independent.
But cellphones are the biggest problem https://t.co/1hvHjjyGaw
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 27, 2024
Why pro-Palestinian protests have blown up at USC but not at UCLA – Los Angeles Times https://t.co/mpWvof3NhT
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 27, 2024
I asked @JosephEStiglitz, longtime @Columbia scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.https://t.co/iXY7Iy0AsA pic.twitter.com/SRA53VTVp0
— The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) April 26, 2024
The professor has been charged with battery against the officer.
You read that right. https://t.co/MjAXf75SKH
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) April 26, 2024
It’s like these university leaders all have a textbook titled, “The ABC’s of how to play right into the hands of people who are organizing against your policies” and are following it with absolute fidelity.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 26, 2024
#PairedTexts pic.twitter.com/WT4r29FUII
— Jennifer Binis (@JennBinis) April 24, 2024
The student-led protests aren’t perfect. That doesn’t mean they’re not right.
Read: https://t.co/0kYpGzlUWi
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 27, 2024
How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history https://t.co/2wq2UjIFHZ
— Vox (@voxdotcom) April 27, 2024
The grim history of using troops against student protesters is from The Washington Post.
Like many ed pundits who critique K-12 schools without talking to teachers or students, or without visiting a classroom, I’m seeing many pundits criticize college students protesting the Gaza invasion without any evidence they’ve spoken to ANY college student in years.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 28, 2024
Opinion: I’m a Jewish student at Yale. Here’s what everyone is getting wrong about the protests is from CNN.
How today’s college protests echo history is from NPR.
D.C. police just schooled a university on freedom of speech rights https://t.co/U8E2K5H4tN
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 30, 2024
“I don’t think that people think Israel is a unique example of evil in the world. What’s special about it is it couldn’t do what its doing without the support of the United States. So students in the United States think *we have a responsibility.” https://t.co/3srhJVKc0l
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) April 29, 2024
I was a graduate student at Columbia during the protests of ’68.
Read: https://t.co/iAAYgV7eD6
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 29, 2024
One general law governs higher ed commentary:
the less one interacts with current university students, the more vocally one claims to understand them, and the quicker one is to condemn them.— Jen Jennings, PhD (@eduwonkette_jen) April 29, 2024
Wesleyan President Michael Roth @mroth78 does tend to consistently get stuff right in my experience. https://t.co/eRFM2XHrMN
— Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya) April 30, 2024
How Should Colleges Handle Student Protests? is from The NY Times Learning Network.
As a former educator I know how dangerous the over-policing and militarization of our schools is. This is shameful and unacceptable.
Our kids deserve better, our teachers deserve better, and our schools deserve better. https://t.co/xSguHOikxx
— Congressman Jamaal Bowman (@RepBowman) April 30, 2024
“In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.” https://t.co/jIjnvYNfo4
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) May 1, 2024
The amount of ahistorical takes I’m seeing here on what civil rights activists did or didn’t do during their protests has been amazing (and then condemning protesters based on those ahistorical views). Also, everyone should read Bill Moyer’s work today. https://t.co/QHPfAxF7sE
— Christopher Martell (@chriscmartell) May 1, 2024
I’ve seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest. What I can tell you is that I’ve reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail. https://t.co/RP7PxPFJIR
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) April 25, 2024
What’s cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.
— Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) (@existentialcoms) April 30, 2024
At Brown, a Rare Agreement Between Administrators and Protesters via @NYTimes https://t.co/Jm84qm2hrY
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 1, 2024
This. https://t.co/2G5HFZFYqI
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 2, 2024
One of the best things I learned reading about the Civil Rights Movement is that all movements are imperfect and that those expecting perfection (in strategy, from activists, or in actions) are not only opposed to the movement but often too cowardly to admit it.
— Victor Ray (@victorerikray) May 1, 2024
Young people have gathered to protest and demonstrate on college campuses for generations, sometimes even spurring policy change. @kaylajjimenez @USATODAY
US has long history of college protests: Here's what happened in the pasthttps://t.co/twxnYP5cS3
— MindShift (@MindShiftKQED) May 3, 2024
From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest is from The NY Times.
The US universities that allow protest encampments – and even negotiate is from The Guardian.
She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here’s her message to student activists is from NPR.
Student describes divestment negotiations with Brown University is from NPR.
What we can learn from 4 schools that have reached agreements with Gaza protesters is from NPR.
Many universities celebrate student activism. That is, when protests are in the past is from NPR.
The Kids Are Not All Right. They Want to Be Heard | The New Yorker | Read this! @KeeangaYamahtta https://t.co/i0LAxGxNyX
— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) May 8, 2024
Stop using Martin L. King to chastise student protests against genocide if you don’t know civil rights history. He believed in disrupting business as usual & was pilloried then by similar folks now praising him. By @JeanneTheoharis https://t.co/5gHTsHmc9M
— Tera Hunter (@TeraWHunter) May 10, 2024
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