US universities - a battleground in culture wars

A student movement is always difficult to sustain during the long summer months when there are few students on campus.

Mr Trump and other conservative voices have been highly critical of the student protesters - and that criticism has found receptive ears among that half of US society that has not been to college - the blue collar workers who these days form the big voting block supporting the Republican party in general - and the party’s current standard bearer, Mr Trump.

The same with the New York Post, a breezy tabloid newspaper also owned by Rupert Murdoch, which caught the sentiment among a significant block of the public early and has also been critical of the protesters - dubbing them"anti-Israel protesters" and supporting a"law and order" approach. Mr Trump himself addressed the issue in one of his periodic stops at the media pen on the 15th floor of the New York criminal courts building, where he is currently on trial.

In a televised address from the Roosevelt Room, he said:"It’s a matter of what’s right. There’s the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos. "But it doesn’t mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without destruction, without hate, and within the law." Some conservative Christians among house members say they firmly believe that Jews killed Jesus Christ.

The Senate had passed a version of this bill back in 2016, but opposition is starting to emerge now to the newer version, especially to the stated intent to chill speech on college campuses and fears it could clash with first amendment rights on free speech and religious freedom.In city politics, too, the student protest movement has produced radically different approaches within the same party - notably with the contrasting approaches of the mayors in New York and Washington DC.

At the start of the week, the NYPD said it had received information that a number of what it described as"professional agitators" had travelled to New York City to get involved with the student demonstrations. Mayor Adams - an African American - said he was proud that police officers had taken down a Palestinian flag flying from one of the university buildings and replacing it with an American flag, adding:"It was despicable that schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in our country."

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