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![Pro-Palestinian student protesters continue demonstrations during the second week of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York, on April 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0604-columbia-university-400x300.jpg)
Columbia’s Gaza Encampment Gave Students Firsthand Experience of Mutual Aid
From communal meals to jail support, Columbia’s Gaza solidarity organizing continues to center mutual aid.
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Campus Crackdowns Have Exposed Authoritarian Rot at the Heart of Universities
The greatest threat to democracy on many campuses has turned out to be the schools’ own trustees and administrators.
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The Trail of Campus Repression of Palestine Solidarity Leads Back to DC
Spanning the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, such repression has been decades in the making.
![Rawda Elbatrawish (L) and Liora Pelavin organize flyers for a student dialogue at Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey, on January 19, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1993696537-400x300.jpg)
K-12 Schools in New Jersey Are Becoming a Battlefield Over Palestine Advocacy
For months, pro-Israel advocates in New Jersey have lobbied school districts to suppress discussion of Palestine.
![Rally organized by the Debt Collective at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2024, calling on President Joe Biden cancel student debt and invest in social spending, and halt aid to Israel during its war on Gaza.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/ezgif-4-11dbc85a1d-400x300.jpg)
Student Debtors and Activists Demand Biden “Fund Education, Not Genocide”
Organizers say their recent DC action was inspired by the students who’ve been arrested at Gaza solidarity encampments.
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Faculty Voted to Let 13 Pro-Palestine Seniors Graduate. Harvard Overruled Them.
Pro-Palestine students say the decision violates the terms of a deal they had reached with the administration.
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Cops Raid University of Michigan Camp Before Its President Testifies in Congress
At least four people were arrested Tuesday, while two others were hospitalized after being pepper-sprayed by police.
![The Popular University for Gaza encampment list of demands.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/image2-400x300.jpeg)
WA Students Say Gaza Encampment Has Been Most Valuable Part of Their Education
A solidarity encampment in Washington State is continuing to press Western Washington University to divest from Israel.
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From Strikes to Encampments, Faculty Join Campus Movement for a Free Palestine
Academic workers are stepping up to support students in the face of crackdowns by university administrations.
![Pro-Palestine activists wave Palestinian flags at Trinity College](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2150971290-400x300.jpg)
How Pro-Palestine Student Protesters Forced Ireland’s Trinity College to Divest
The college announced that it will phase out business ties with Israeli companies by March 2025.