Why Colleges Don’t Know What To Do About Campus Protests

Tense protests and counter-protests concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are roiling campus life at American colleges and universities, including cancelled classes and commencements, and numerous student and faculty arrests. Police and university authorities have been accused of “trampling First Amendment rights” and conducting unnecessarily violent arrests. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The fraught situation has spotlighted the difficulty of balancing the importance of free speech on campuses with the imperative to protect students from harm.

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