As campus protests against Israel's war spread to colleges across the U.S., NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with University of Texas at Austin students, on both sides, about their concerns and demands.
As campus protests against Israel's war spread to colleges across the U.S., NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with University of Texas at Austin students, on both sides, about their concerns and demands.The war in Gaza sparked protests at dozens of college campuses across the United States over the past month and led to hundreds of arrests.
"It's not a demonstration for the sake of demonstration," Qaddumi said."It's a protest for the children of Gaza. I think that's something that people cannot lose sight of." "There's been some speech on campus that a lot of Jewish students can interpret as anti-Semitic," Sanders said"I feel like if students who were chanting that knew how it made us feel, I would feel a little better on campus right now.Sanders was specifically concerned about chants like"from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," and chants calling for an intifada. In Arabic, the word intifada means"uprising or shaking off.
"I was spit at twice and told to go back to Poland," Greenwald said."Also, a friend of mine was told that all Zionists should die.""I agree that people have the right to protest. But when it's encroaching on other students' rights on campus, that's when it becomes an issue," Sanders said."And with some of the speech that was being said on campus, I do feel a bit safer with a bit of a police presence.
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