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Bernd Debusmann Jr | |
Reporting from New York | |
For some observers, the protests | |
at Columbia and other US college campuses echo the 1960s, when | |
demonstrations against the Vietnam War rocked the country. | |
Among those who see parallels is | |
Marianne Hirsch, a literature professor who also specialises in Holocaust | |
studies. | |
Speaking to reporters this week, | |
Hirsch - who participated in the 1960s protest movement - said that in her | |
opinion, the war in Vietnam and the current war in Gaza made it "impossible to | |
continue business as usual". | |
“People in this world are | |
feeling that what is happening in Gaza is unbearable and that they have to | |
act,” she said. | |
Another veteran of the 1960s | |
protest movement and author of a book on the movement and mass arrests | |
that took place in Columbia at the time, Oren Root, told the BBC that while he | |
saw significant parallels, he believed opposition to the protests today was much more intense. | |
“The politicisation is much more | |
extreme,” said Root, a 1969 Columbia graduate. “There were certainly | |
conservative politicians in 1968 who were opposed and severely criticised the | |
protest movements, but the world is different now.” | |
“The internet and social media | |
are a big factor,” he said, adding that it helped amplify accusations that the | |
protests were antisemitic. | |
“It ramps up emotional, political and personal | |
aspects of the opposition in ways that are really unfortunate.” | |
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