College Campuses Cracking Down on Pro-Palestine Protests
The protests highlight the challenges of balancing the First Amendment rights of demonstrators with the rights of students to feel safe.
The protests highlight the challenges of balancing the First Amendment rights of demonstrators with the rights of students to feel safe.
USC Provost Andrew T. Guzman said threats against valedictorian Asna Tabassum, a Muslim-American student, have reached an “alarming tenor.”
The Plum Point Middle School students allegedly displayed swastikas, performed Nazi salutes, and made derogatory comments about a classmate’s religion.
The district’s responses to repeated harassment of Black, Asian, and Jewish students and to harassment based on sex did not meet the district’s federal civil rights obligations.
A security consultant shares his opinion on how educational leaders have handled campus conflicts associated with the ongoing war and ways they can improve.
The signs were posted during a gathering involving pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students on Monday that got very heated.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth said the pro-Palestinian student group was suspended for violating campus protest rules.
The 17-year-old is accused of making hundreds of swatting threats against high schools, HBCUs, FBI agents, and government offices.
The district must audit its harassment procedures and annually train its staff after a student was repeatedly targeted for being Jewish.
In the three months since Oct. 7, ADL tracked 60 antisemitic assaults, 500+ incidents on college campuses