Amid Gaza War, College Campuses Become Free Speech “Testing Ground”
Protests at universities are now being met with a wave of censorship and suppression, targeting students most directly.
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Protests at universities are now being met with a wave of censorship and suppression, targeting students most directly.
Organizers say attacks from the Israeli prime minister, who faces charges of war crimes, showed the strength of their movement.
If there’s any lesson so far in Trump’s second term, it’s that playing nice isn’t just bad optics — it’s a losing strategy.
As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.
Most lawmakers explained their boycott by focusing on the Israeli prime minister himself as a bad actor, rather than the system he represents.
The University of Pennsylvania has been a target of Canary Mission, a pro-Israel “blacklist” group. Turns out the call was coming from inside the house.
Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, repeatedly flagged for censorship posts by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Security group Magen Am’s staff also includes a former Navy SEAL who posted a video of waterboarding his own child.
The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban.
Past challengers to California Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez have run up against big spending from special interest groups.
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