This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
Protests
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Opinion ‘A redefinition of civil disobedience’: Dartmouth’s crackdown with riot police was far worse than the protest
Jeff Sharlet, a Dartmouth professor, on how the college ‘swatted themselves’ sending in special response police unit to arrest pro-Palestinian protesters
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News Students retake encampment at MIT, where protests take on a mathematical spin
At one the world’s greatest centers for science, protesters draw on math theory and a pro-Israel engineering student invokes her Muslim father
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Opinion Student protesters want universities to ‘divest’ from Israel. But how much have they actually invested?
Demands for divestment have included cutting ties with multinational giants like Google
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Fast Forward Columbia’s president releases a video addressing decision to call police to campus
University President Nemat Shafik had kept a low profile in the days since she asked New York City police to retake a building from student protesters
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Opinion I’m a Zionist at Columbia. The protesters at Hamilton Hall were a threat to Jewish students like me
I began my freshman year hopefully. Then pro-Palestinian protesters became increasingly radicalized
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News ‘Everyone gets to be uncomfortable’: How Jewish students at Brown kept antisemitism at bay
Other university protesters made headlines for antisemitic chants. Brown students charted a different course.
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Looking Forward Fact, fiction, and the campus protester who got arrested on his birthday
The problem with the Gaza solidarity encampments isn't antisemitism. It's that they've become a distraction from the war itself.
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Opinion Student activists aren’t antisemites; they’re partners in a dance of death
With their extremist rhetoric and tactics, demonstrators risk becoming a mirror-image of their opponents on the far right
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Opinion Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.
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