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Catherine Kim
May 3, 2024
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_ POLITICO Magazine asked leaders of campus news organizations to set
the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the
media is getting wrong. Here's what 14 of them saw and what they
think. _

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Over 50 schools. Nearly 2,000 arrests
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One canceled graduation ceremony — so far.

We’re in the midst of the most widespread campus unrest since the
1960s, sparked by the war between Israel and Hamas. Over the last two
weeks, campus protests have escalated, with pro-Palestinian tent
encampments set up in public spaces, triggering counterprotests and,
on more than 30 campuses, clashes with police.

With so many incidents taking place in so many places, it’s hard for
anyone to grasp what’s really happening at America’s universities
right now. So _POLITICO Magazine_ reached out this week to top
student journalists, who have been reporting on the turmoil at the
ground level for weeks and months. As neutral observers able to
interact with all sides, they can provide unique insights, even as
they watch friends get arrested or worry if their graduation
ceremonies will even take place.

Over email and phone calls the past week, editors-in-chief of campus
publications from 13 different colleges and universities told us how
support for Palestine has surged over the last seven months, how their
peers define antisemitism and what the political consequences of these
protests might be. They come from a wide variety of campuses all over
the country, but collectively, the group painted a picture of students
fighting to be heard by leadership — both on campus and nationally.

_This conversation has been compiled from email responses and phone
interviews and edited for length and clarity._

What are the protests like in-person? Has there been conflict with
administration, counterprotesters or police?

ARIANNA SMITH (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY): The protests mostly consist of
chanting, praying and singing. There have been instances of
counterprotests from those in support of Israel, including at Thursday
evening’s demonstration. The only time I have seen conflict arise
firsthand is when police officers have gotten involved by yelling out
warnings and initiating arrests.

LEON ORLOV-SULLIVAN (CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK): The NYPD came on
campus to clear the encampment. In speaking to some people who were
actually arrested, they said there was excessive use of force. I heard
people were being just grabbed and thrown on the ground. Outside of
the encampment on the public street, which hadn’t been fenced in,
people were being thrown away from the protests and arrested, and it
wasn’t really clear what they were being arrested for. I was as
close as I could get to the encampment with the permission of the
NYPD. And there, inside the encampment, I saw people being grabbed and
sort of manhandled by the NYPD. A statement put out by the
encampment’s Instagram account said that two people had broken
teeth. Somebody else said that the handcuffs or zip ties — what was
being used to restrain their arms — were so tight that their hands
were purple.

EMMY MARTIN (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL): The
encampment was swept by UNC administration and police on Tuesday
morning at 6 a.m. But then we saw tensions escalate again on Tuesday,
when protesters took down the American flag on UNC’s campus to raise
a Palestinian flag. There were then probably about 40 to 50 people who
came to campus, it looked like they were members of a fraternity, who
brought Israeli flags — they were there to support UNC Interim
Chancellor Lee Roberts as he entered the quad with several police
officers to put the American flag back up on the pole. There was an
escalation between police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Folks
were sprayed with pepper spray, there was pushing, shoving between
police and demonstrators. And through it all, there were also pretty
significant numbers of counterprotesters in support of putting the
flag back up.

 

ISABELLE FRIEDMAN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES): UCLA’s
campus was met with extreme violence. After counterprotesters
attempted to seize the encampment in our main plaza, there were a lot
of injuries. One of our reporters was also injured and classes were
canceled on Wednesday. And before all this happened, the chancellor
was called in to testify before a congressional committee to speak on
their views on rising campus antisemitism and the university’s
handling of on-campus demonstrations.

ANIKA SETH (YALE UNIVERSITY): Ideology aside, a lot of us, myself
included, have friends who are in the plaza who are actively
protesting. As a journalist, you’re watching your friends get
arrested. And the only thing that you can do in that moment is report.
And that was incredibly difficult emotionally, watching friends,
classmates, people that I’ve worked with in other clubs be loaded on
Yale shuttles that are operating as police buses with their hands held
back behind their backs.

[Jewish Voice for Peace hosts a Passover seder in the encampment at
the University of Michigan.]

Jewish Voice for Peace hosts a Passover seder in the encampment at the
University of Michigan on April 22. | Julianne Yoon/The Michigan Daily

Have there been instances of antisemitism as part of these protests
and counterprotests? What does that look like?

SOPHIA PEYSER, MADI OLIVIER (EMORY UNIVERSITY): Some students have
told the _Emory Wheel _that the protests are antisemitic, sometimes
pointing to the use of chants such as “There is only one solution,
intifada revolution,” and “Hey hey, ho ho, Zionists have got to
go.”

LEON ORLOV-SULLIVAN (CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK): I’m a Jewish
student, so I can speak to some of this from my own experience, though
I don’t wear a yarmulke and I’m not religious. But I do know a lot
of Jewish students on campus. I personally haven’t heard anything
antisemitic, and I haven’t heard any mention of my own Jewish
background. I do think some Jewish students in some groups have
expressed concerns that they feel the people who are against Israel
are against Jews as a whole, or that they don’t feel safe on campus.
I spoke to one student who said she experienced bullying for wearing a
pin with the flag of Israel on it.

JACOB WENDLER (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY): While of course, every
student is going to have a different understanding of what constitutes
antisemitism and Islamophobia, I would say the rhetoric at the
protests has remained focused largely on Israel. A few posters
circulating on social media have seemed to imply that there has been
antisemitic imagery at the encampment (one depicted the Jewish
university president donning devil horns, while another showed a Star
of David crossed out). Encampment organizers have condemned these
signs and taken them down, saying they don’t represent the message
of the demonstration.

MANASA GUDAVALLI (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY): There were some reports of
antisemitic incidents at the first encampment on campus, although
NYU’s American Association of University Professors and dozens of
departmental leaders have said no university affiliates were involved
in such incidents.

ALEX STEIL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA): Complaints of antisemitism have
arisen not so much in response to the theme of the protests but
instead to the chalk statements and posters hung around our student
union, where phrases like “Intifada is revolution is armed
struggle,” “Nothing but hate for Israel and Zionism” or
“Al-Qassam make us proud,” were common in the days after last
Tuesday’s protests. These are the main examples I have heard from
Jewish leaders on campus when they say there is hateful rhetoric on
campus. In short, the protests themselves are nonviolent, but Jewish
students hear the rhetoric espoused at them as violent.

Have there been instances of Islamophobia as part of these protests
and counterprotests? What does that look like?

MANASA GUDAVALLI (NYU): Many pro-Palestinian protesters say they are
being unfairly disciplined for their viewpoints on the war in Gaza.
Students have been continuing to push for protection of
pro-Palestinian students’ rights to free expression at NYU.

SOPHIA PEYSER, MADI OLIVIER (EMORY UNIVERSITY): Emory Students for
Justice in Palestine told the _Emory_ _Wheel _on April 28 that the
administration’s actions in the last six months have “invited
active harm” to Arab, Muslim and Palestinian communities at Emory
— after “EPD arrested 28 protestors during a pro-Palestine
encampment
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the Quad on April 25.” On April 6, the _Emory_ _Wheel _reported
that the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
and Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf
of ESJP with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil
Rights, demanding an immediate investigation into the “hostile”
anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and Islamophobic environment on campus.
The complaint claimed that students were subject to actions such as
being called terrorists and being followed on campus.

LEON ORLOV-SULLIVAN (CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK): As far as anti-Arab
sentiment goes, I personally haven’t seen a rise on City College’s
campuses. I think City College is majority minority, and there are a
lot of students who are Arab or non-Arab Muslim. But a Muslim student
I know did tell me that her sister, who wears a hijab, had an
experience at Queens College this week where, out of a group of
people, she was the only one questioned as to why she was entering her
college.

 

[Police officers push back pro-Palestinian protesters during a
demonstration at Emory University.]

Police officers push back pro-Palestinian protesters during a
demonstration at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 25. |
Jack Rutherford/The Emory Wheel

Have you seen a rise in antisemitism on campus outside of the
protests? Have you seen a rise in Islamophobia or anti-Arab sentiment?

ALEX STEIL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA): Yes, there has been a stark
rise in antisemitism on campus. Of 122 bias reports this year at the
university, 42 are reported against Israel or tagged as antisemitism.
Sixteen were reported as against Palestine or as Islamophobia.

NEIL MEHTA (BROWN UNIVERSITY): Students, campus groups and
administrators have denounced Islamophobia and antisemitism when it
has appeared on campus, such as after threats to Brown’s Muslim
Student Center last year or Brown-RISD Hillel earlier this year.

ZHANE YAMIN (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN): _The Michigan Daily_ has
reported instances of antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus. A U-M
School of Information board member was recorded verbally assaulting
Arab and Muslim students. There was no disciplinary action taken by
the university; however, the School of Information committed to
facilitating listening groups to hear students’ concerns. The
Michigan Hillel building was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
earlier this year, and the students responsible for the vandalization
were punished by the university.

ANIKA SETH (YALE UNIVERSITY): There are reports of antisemitic and
also Islamophobic conduct that have existed throughout the year. In
the fall semester, there was a report of someone having their head
coverings snatched off of them. We haven’t traced down all of these
specific and very individual reports of violence, but it’s worth
noting that they exist on both sides.

JARED MITOVICH (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA): Last semester it felt
like the criticism that was the most influential on the behavior of
the university was the perceived antisemitism. And that’s because of
the passion and the criticism that was primarily led by a group of
very passionate students, but also a wave of very significant donors
and alumni. And obviously, those donors, such as Marc Rowan
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have the resources to be very vocal in the media, through back
channels, with administration — they’ve got a pathway to voice
their concerns in a way that can impact how the university goes about
its business.

 

[Signs hang outside the encampment at Northwestern University.]

Signs hang outside the encampment at Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois, on April 25. | William Tong/The Daily Northwestern

Have Jewish students on your campus told you they feel unsafe? Have
Palestinian/Arab students on your campus told you they feel unsafe?

SOPHIA PEYSER, MADI OLIVIER (EMORY UNIVERSITY): We published an op-ed
in the fall from a Jewish student who said they felt unsafe because
“educators here dismiss the real fears of Jewish students.”
Additionally, many attendees at Palestine protests and members of
pro-Palestine student groups have requested anonymity from our news
reporters, citing safety concerns.

ALEX STEIL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA): Jewish students have made an
overt effort to express their unease. They are expressing their
worries that violent rhetoric, at any moment, could turn into violent
action. As the student president said for the campus Jewish student
organization, “Safety, in this moment, is relative.” They mention
how they don’t feel safe walking around campus, seeing mentions of
armed revolution or the globalization of the Intifada. I have not
heard of the same type of incidents with Palestinian/Arab students.
That’s not to say it isn’t occurring, but it isn’t talked about
in the same way as it is with Jewish students. There have been
statements from those arrested explaining why they left their
encampments early: The police presence made them feel unsafe.

ANIKA SETH (YALE UNIVERSITY): I’ve heard especially in the
fall, when the “doxxing trucks”
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coming around campus, a lot of Muslim and Arab students and also
students of color expressed really huge concern for their safety and
worries about doxxing. And I think that there is a lot of truth to the
reports that you see in national media about Jewish students feeling
uncomfortable and unsafe on campuses. But there are also a lot who are
upset by that characterization. We’ve heard students say that they
feel incredibly safe and don’t appreciate being looped into this
category of “all Jewish students are unsafe on American universities
everywhere,” which I think is a narrative that national media
outlets seem to be getting out but that students here have been
totally pushing back against.

JARED MITOVICH (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA): In the Jewish community,
there are certainly subsets of people who do feel unsafe on this
campus right now, especially given the encampment — that’s created
a place for them to attribute those feelings to. At the same time, you
also have Jewish students who are pro-Palestinian and who want to see
the university defending its Palestinian students. On the flip side,
Palestinian students and their supporters do feel that the university
has kind of created a state of heightened surveillance. What I know is
definitely true is that they’re concerned about doxxing and their
safety, given that a lot of external organizations have taken down the
names of faculty, students and staff — anybody who those
organizations perceived to be engaged in antisemitic or even
anti-Israel conduct. Those names and faces have been plastered all
over the internet. And that’s really prompted a wave of concern
among those students, but also university administration, who have
taken some steps to create doxxing resources and web pages.

EMMY MARTIN (UNC-CHAPEL HILL): Our administration has been pretty
vocal in condemning antisemitic speech and Islamophobic speech.
Students, specifically within our Arab and Muslim community have
called on the administration saying they’ve not felt supported in
the same way that Jewish students have experienced support from the
administration. For example, UNC Hillel has often posted messages on
their social media saying that they’re in communication with
university administration and they’re in communication with campus
security. Whereas, our Arab student organization or Muslim Student
Association has folks who are saying that they don’t feel like the
administration is there to provide resources for them.

How do students on your campus define antisemitism? Where do students
draw the line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism or criticism of
Israel? Has that debate evolved in the last few months?

JARED MITOVICH (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA): At the university level,
I believe they’ve adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance’s definition
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antisemitism. And that has drawn criticism from more of the
anti-Israel side — that definition, in their interpretation,
includes that anti-Israel conduct is antisemitic.

SHANE BRENNAN (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY): I think students have been
increasingly able to decipher that criticism of Israel’s government
is not hate against Jewish people. There are Jewish students who
support Palestine on campus.

SOPHIA PEYSER, MADI OLIVIER (EMORY UNIVERSITY): One member of the
Emory community directly discussed this topic in an op-ed
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stating that a student group’s demand for Emory to “separate
entirely from any Zionists” was inherently antisemitic, as 67
percent of religious Jews are emotionally attached to Israel,
according to a Pew Research survey. On Nov. 1, 2023,
the _Emory_ _Wheel_ reported that several other students also found
these demands for separation from Zionism to be antisemitic.

ALEX STEIL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA): Jewish students, again during a
press conference, did conflate rhetoric against Zionism with rhetoric
against Jewish students. Having talked personally with numerous
members of our Jewish student organization, many see violent rhetoric
against Israel as equivalent to violent rhetoric against Jewish
people. That’s one of my biggest takeaways right now: Adults as well
as students are synonymizing the two terms, rightly or wrongly.

ANIKA SETH (YALE UNIVERSITY): Some people on campus have in the past
argued that critique of Israel in any way is a critique of the Jewish
people — and I will say that I think that perspective has become
less prevalent from what I’ve seen since last October. Students in
the paper have expressed how people will make them feel or describe
them as less Jewish for being critical of Israel. And that’s another
form of antisemitism that we’ve been hearing people describe to us:
“You’re not Jewish if you’re not pro-Israel.”

 

[Left: Pro-Israel protesters demonstrate outside the encampment at the
University of Pennsylvania. Right: Pro-Palestinian protesters chant
during a demonstration at the encampment.]

Left: Pro-Israel protesters demonstrate outside the encampment at the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on April 25. Right:
Pro-Palestinian protesters chant during a demonstration at the
encampment on May 2. | Ethan Young/The Daily Pennsylvanian

What portion of your student body is engaged in active pro-Palestine
protests at this point? Is that proportion growing?

NEIL MEHTA (BROWN UNIVERSITY): Over the past few months, many more
students have gotten involved in campus activism than in years past.
Protests regarding divestment have drawn crowds of hundreds of people,
and over 50 percent of respondents to our undergraduate poll said they
had attended a rally or protest during their time at Brown. In that
poll, held late February, we surveyed over 1,000 students. Roughly
two-thirds of respondents, who are all undergraduates, said they
disapproved of the university’s response to the conflict, and a
similar share said they approved of a divestment proposal.

ALEX STEIL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA): It’s hard to put a number on
this, as they have ebbed and flowed. That said, our reporters have put
estimates of the protests at a couple hundred, although those numbers
are really just determined by raw counting rather than any metric we
could point to. Those numbers have dwindled as the week went on,
although protestors are still saying on social media their numbers are
in the hundreds. As a proportion of our overall campus, it is a
fraction of our roughly 55,000 students.

MANASA GUDAVALLI (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY): Most of the protests on
campus, not only now but for several months, have been
pro-Palestinian. While there have been large pro-Palestinian protests
on campus in the past, the last two encampment demonstrations and a
recent strike held in Washington Square Park have been the largest so
far, indicating growing support on campus for Palestinians and
divestment from companies with ties to Israel.

LEON ORLOV-SULLIVAN (CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK): In recent days, I
think a lot of people have developed the opinion that the CUNY
administration is poorly handling the protests. And I think that might
be pushing some people toward an opinion that is more pro-Palestinian
or more against Israel’s actions during the Israel-Hamas war.

Have non-student protesters been an issue on your campus?

SHANE BRENNAN (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY): The organization that
promoted the ASU protest is an off-campus political organization.
Students are involved with that organization, but they are not a
student organization. Most pro-Palestine protests have been organized
at least in part by off-campus organizations. However, there is an
active Students for Justice in Palestine at ASU that has organized
smaller protests consistently throughout the year.

ARIANNA SMITH (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY): There have been non-student
protesters on campus but they have for the most part been protesting
alongside the student organizers, and have not been orchestrating
demonstrations of their own.

SOPHIA PEYSER, MADI OLIVIER (EMORY UNIVERSITY): The university
reported that eight of the 28 individuals arrested on April 25 were
not affiliated with the Emory community. On the night of April 27, we
reported that three unidentified individuals spray painted “LAND
BACK,” “FUK USA” and “DEATH 2 [ISRAEL]” on the Convocation
Hall building on the Quad — protesters in attendance said that the
individuals were not Emory students.

What does the media get wrong about the protests on your campus?

ZHANE YAMIN (UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN): The protests at the University
of Michigan are not equally pro-Palestine and pro-Israel. However,
national media has portrayed them as so. Pro-Palestine protests are
much more common, and generally bigger than pro-Israel demonstrations
or rallies. However, this does not necessarily mean that student
sentiment regarding the Israeli military campaign in Gaza is uniform
or that there is a lack of pro-Israel sentiment on campus.

ISABELLE FRIEDMAN (UCLA): One thing we’ve been trying to be careful
about is making it clear where violence has come from and originated
from on campus. We’ve seen some outlets portray violence as if it is
not one-sided: It was coming from the counterprotesters Tuesday night.
That’s something that other outlets should be critical of in their
coverage.

JACOB WENDLER (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY): One thing outside media may
not see about the protests is that there’s a diverse array of
viewpoints within the pro-Palestine encampment, and not everyone
agrees on how protesters should carry out their demonstration or what
might constitute a sufficient agreement with university
administrators. The encampment includes Arab and Palestinian students,
Jewish students, Muslim students and students of various other
identities. They don’t always agree on how to respond to police
escalation. For example: During the encampment’s first few hours,
tents repeatedly went up and down as demonstrators disagreed over
whether or not complying with police orders would be in their best
interest, and there’s been dissent within the camp about how much to
engage with the media.

LEON ORLOV-SULLIVAN (CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK): One thing the media
gets majorly wrong is the outside agitator narrative. A lot of the
people that I spoke to at the encampment and the protests were CUNY
students, and a lot of the older people that I spoke to were alumni or
faculty or staff of CUNY. So, I definitely think that one thing the
media gets wrong is portraying the encampments as though they’re not
really run by or mostly populated by people from the City University
of New York.

SHANE BRENNAN (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY): The encampment itself was
pretty tame and didn’t interfere with the day-to-day operations of
the vast majority of students.

[Counterprotesters throw away camp equipment while pro-Palestinian
protesters gather in an encampment at Arizona State University.]

Counterprotesters throw away camp equipment while pro-Palestinian
protesters gather in an encampment at Arizona State University in
Tempe, on April 26. | Paul Pascual/The State Press

How do you feel about members of Congress and other political leaders
weighing in on the protests?

ANIKA SETH (YALE UNIVERSITY): The antisemitism hearings before
Congress
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Elise Stefanik was instrumental in overseeing — that set of hearings
felt deeply politically motivated to me. I will say that from the
get-go made me very jaded and cynical of any type of federal response
to this sort of stuff. So even if their interests are the purest, it
is difficult for me to view them as anything but potentially poorly
informed in some way or politically manipulative in some way. And that
bothers me. Especially because these are in many respects people who
aren’t on these campuses and aren’t seeing what’s happening.

JARED MITOVICH (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA): I was at that
congressional hearing in December. It allowed me to see how close any
university is to scrutiny by Congress. After the Trump election — as
a wave of criticism of elite universities came from the right for
their handling of free speech and supposed indoctrination — it was
really interesting to see that shift. And to see Republicans in
particular potentially realize that criticism of elite universities
for their handling of antisemitism might be a politically helpful
topic to campaign on. And I think Penn was the first example of that,
because we were one of the first schools that the Committee on
Education opened an investigation into. I think a lot of students on
either side would say, we don’t need politicians to tell us how to
operate the universities.

MANASA GUDAVALLI (NYU): While it is understandable that political
leaders would want to weigh in on an issue that has become so deeply
entrenched in national discourse, there are also concerns about this
potentially causing further divisions within and oversimplification of
a complex issue.

ALEX STEIL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA): I can tell you what the student
response was when Rep. Ilhan Omar came to campus. Frankly, the
publicity seemed to be limited to our outlet and those who were at the
protests when she showed up. I saw nothing on social media about her
visit, both for protesters outside of these organizations or the
official student accounts posting about the protests on campus. In the
end, the visits from our city council members and other legislators
seemed to make little impact. In at least our instance, it seems that
our protests are more student-led, student-oriented and focused on our
university rather than the national scale. Our members of Congress
weigh in, and that’s fine. But it seems like the students who are
protesting are focusing on change it feels like they can make —
calling on their university, potentially folks they have talked to
before in different subject areas — rather than continue to petition
at the national level.

Do you feel the events of the last few months have changed students’
political leanings? As in 1968, do you feel like these protests will
have long-term impact on national politics?

JACOB WENDLER (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY): I don’t know if I
necessarily see it shifting people’s political views. But I think
the war in Gaza has certainly made a lot of people particularly
disillusioned with the U.S. government and with both parties — even
more so than they previously were. We definitely might see that impact
younger voter turnout rates in the fall. There were chants or signs
about “Genocide Joe” at the encampment and about the Biden
administration’s role in supporting the Israeli government.

JARED MITOVICH (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA): Penn is just generally a
liberal campus, people here are not really that supportive of Trump.
What you’re seeing with Biden is that people aren’t necessarily
behind him either. There were the Pennsylvania primary elections last
week, and the uncommitted votes — or at least the write-in votes,
which are correlated to uncommitted votes — were the highest in our
neighborhood of Philadelphia than any other neighborhood. And I think
that reflects that students’ sentiment, even within a city that’s
very liberal, might be more against Joe Biden than average.

LEON ORLOV-SULLIVAN (CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK): I think the impact of
these protests will be a shift toward a less pro-Israel sentiment in
American national politics. Polls do show that younger people are less
likely to support Israel as opposed to older Americans. For many older
Americans, it’s crucial to support Israel as an ally, and I think
that’s less true for younger Americans. But there’s definitely a
decent proportion of younger Americans who will continue to support
Israel.

ANIKA SETH (YALE UNIVERSITY): There feels like there’s a really
different cadence to how national media is covering what’s happening
now. The idea of there being these mass encampments and mass protests
across the country, and students getting arrested for them and putting
their arrest records on the line for it — all of that has changed
how my friends from home who aren’t maybe as involved in news or
geopolitics, my parents, my cousins, national media, people on the
internet talk about the war. It’s much more of, “Wow, look at how
much these students care about this cause!”

_Calder McHugh and Peder Schaefer contributed to this report._

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