Columbia University and the New Student Anti-War Movement
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Joe Howley on how Israel’s war in Gaza is coming to the home front.
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Columbia University and the New Student antiwar movement
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Joe Howley on how Israel’s war in Gaza is coming to the home front.
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The Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the South Lawn of Columbia University.
(Lara-Nour Walton)There’s a new battleground in Israel/Palestine conflict: academia. Columba University, long the hotbed for arguments about the issue, has boiled over in open conflict as pro-Palestine students set up an encampment, only to be met with an administration that called the police to crack down on the protesters. They students have also been denounced by a bipartisan group of politicians led by Joe Biden and been accused of antisemitism.
But this repression has only emboldened the students and their peers across America, as encampments have spread to numerous other campuses.
To gauge the prospects for this new anti-war movement, I was very happy to talk to Joseph Howley, an associate professor at the Department of Classics at Columbia. Howley brought a wealth of knowledge to describing how the situation looks on the ground. During the discussion, the recommended these sources of student journalism: the Columbia Daily Spectator, the radio station WKCR, and the blog BWOG.
The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The Time of Monsters podcast features Nation national-affairs correspondent Jeet Heer’s signature blend of political culture and cultural politics. Each week, he’ll host in-depth conversations with urgent voices on the most pressing issues of our time.
Biden Versus the Pro-Palestinian Protesters
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Yousef Munayyer on a president at war with his base.
According to a recent CNN poll, 81 percent of voters age 18 to 35 disapprove of President Joe Biden support of Israel’s war in Gaza. This number should be a concern to Biden, because for his reelection bid to succeed he absolutely needs young voters to be as enthusiastically supportive of him as they were in 2020. The issue of Israel/Palestine is dragging Biden’s support down even as he needs to rally his base. But Biden is doubling down on his policy of offering a virtual carte blanche to Benjamin Netanyahu.
This conflict between Biden’s policy and the opinions of a supermajority of young people is now spilling into actual physical violence, as universities such as Columbia and UCLA send in cops to arrest pro-Palestine protesters.
To talk about the growing political divide and what it portends for the both the Middle East and the United States, I talked to Palestinian American writer Yousef Munayyer.
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