The pro Palestinian protests across American universities over the last few weeks — and the heavy handed action of the police — are reminiscent of the student protests that the US witnessed against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
The scale today does not compare with what happened back then but there are some similarities. Then too, police were called in, and they even opened fire on anti war protesters at one campus, killing 4 students. Those images would haunt the White House later.
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The scale today does not compare with what happened back then but there are some similarities. Then too, police were called in, and they even opened fire on anti war protesters at one campus, killing 4 students. Those images would haunt the White House later.
Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/gaza-campus-protests-legacy-of-change-and-a-crucible-of-democracy-1.102713409
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00:00The images of students at American universities protesting against Israel and for Palestinians
00:10is something that has reverberated around the world and it sparked off a debate about
00:14whether students should be protesting about anything at all.
00:19There are incredibly many voices that have come out and said that campuses are not places
00:23for protest, that students have been sent there by their parents who've paid very huge
00:28tuition fees in order to study, in order to make their careers, make their lives and not
00:33to get involved in politics or protest of any kind.
00:36I find that a very baffling argument because campuses, university campuses have always
00:41been the bedrock of protest, of dissent, of debate and of politics and that's actually
00:47a very good thing.
00:48I would argue that in fact protest is very much a part of any college student's education
00:54and whether you look at the history of protest movements in US universities or even protests
00:59at universities here in India, politics is very much a part of these protests and debate
01:07and discussion and disagreement as well.
01:10Students should be encouraged in fact to protest, to dissent, to talk about current issues,
01:16to debate them and that is ultimately what I feel will shape their futures and their
01:22lives going ahead rather than boxing them into some kind of academic life where there's
01:29really no scope to think beyond one's textbooks.
01:33That's not what university education is about and that's what I take away from these protests in America.