US campuses become a growing front in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
by Ed Pilkington from on (#5J382)
Pro-Palestinian students are increasingly visible at US colleges but face well-funded opposition from supporters of Israel
On 10 May, on a day in which Hamas launched rockets into Israel and Israel responded with strikes on Gaza as the Middle East descended into devastating violence, student leaders at the University of Michigan put out a statement on the crisis addressed to the campus community.
The central student government (CSG) didn't mince words. The Israeli occupation amounted to war crimes, they said, subjecting Palestinians to Israeli settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid".
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