"It's crucial not to lose sight of what all these people are protesting in the first place. Gaza has been bombed for a year and a half. Best estimates are that 15,000 children have been killed, a million people have been dislocated, the entire strip has been effectively razed to the ground..."

"All of which happened with the sometimes tacit, often explicit support of the Biden administration, as new reporting from Israel's Channel 13 and Drop Site highlights, and after all that the Trump administration says that the real extremism, the danger is the one happening on college campuses."

"Just this week, PM Netanyahu is announcing moving on to the next phase of his plan... which appears to be, bring about an ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Both the United Nations and the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has said ethnic cleansing is already underway..."

"Instead of opposing any of that, our gov't is enabling it. The Trump administration is apparently involved in negotiating conversations about what countries will take the Palestinians forced to free from the desperation, engaging in the facilitation of what would amount to mass population transfers

"a phrase that rightly recalls some of the worst episodes in human history. So currently we are looking at U.S. and Israeli policy that is more aggressively radical, more flagrantly in violation of international law and human rights, than we've seen before. But if you point that out...

"or you hold up a sign, or you protest, or you write a student op-ed on campus, the Trump administration may try to label you a terrorist and enemy of the state, and have you removed from the country, or put into detention for months.

"Meanwhile, too many top figures in the Democratic Party have effectively abdicated their leadership on this issue. So what exactly are young Americans, who as almost every poll shows have increasingly soured on Israeli policy in Gaza, supposed to do, exactly? Should students shut up and pretend...