Source: Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon
“With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any backtalk. Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo. But for supporters of human rights, it’s a renewed opportunity to turn higher education into something more than a comfort zone. In the United States, the extent and arrogance of the emerging collegiate repression is, quite literally, breathtaking. Every day, people are dying due to their transgression of breathing while Palestinian. The Gaza death toll adds up to more than one Kristallnacht per day, for upwards of 333 days and counting, with no end in sight. The shattering of a society’s entire infrastructure has been horrendous.” (09/05/24)