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Not all students are taking part in the demonstrations. Bernd Debusmann Jr
One of those is Columbia freshman Jacob. He saw the group from afar on Tuesday, and says since the police were called, "everything has blown up". Reporting from New York
"That was pouring gasoline on the fire," he says of the decision to call in law enforcement. For some observers, the protests
"I wish our administration had maybe worked with them a little more to hear their demands," he adds. at Columbia and other US college campuses echo the 1960s, when
Jacob says he has Jewish friends who feel uncomfortable on campus and he empathises with them. 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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