The student intifada is growing across the world, demanding that university administrations and lawmakers stop facilitating and funding the genocide in Palestine.
In the US, state violence against students and faculty has been deployed and encouraged by university officials, intent on destroying the movement.
“The violent reaction and the violent suppression of these peaceful protests have just been utterly outrageous, and it serves to bolster the determination of a lot of the organizers,” Barbara Ransby, a scholar, writer and longtime activist tells us on The Electronic Intifada Podcast.
“While some of the encampments have been shut down, I don’t think that the commitment that those young people had has been shut down – and in some ways, their eyes have been opened even wider of how important this issue is and what extreme measures elites will take to enforce silence around it,” she says. ….more
