As the Israel-Gaza struggle grinds on amid a worsening humanitarian disaster, the world’s consideration this week was captured by a battle on the campuses of elite US universities. Pro-Palestine scholar protesters had been arrested en masse by New York City police on the prestigious Columbia University, prompting outrage that unfold throughout different school websites.
Guardian US reporter Erum Salam tells Michael Safi that the scene on Columbia’s campus was one among orderly drum circles and organised anti-war demonstrations, not the all-out violent chaos that may have been imagined.
The columnist Margaret Sullivan teaches at Columbia’s journalism college. She explains how the problem has exploded this week into nationwide and worldwide information and why it’s not going away any time quickly.
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