From the Encampments: Student Reflections on Protests for Palestine - LPE Project

Law students at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and Yale explain the demands behind the ongoing anti-war protests and offer their reflections from the encampments.

Earlier this week, with more than 150 Gaza solidarity encampments popping up throughout the country , the national news media speculated that the protests were the result of students not having enough sex , the loss of college community , republican lawmakers taking advantage of a wedge issue , students activists operating as proxy groups for Iran , and students finally releasing their long-withheld rage from Covid shutdowns. Lost in this coverage were the protestors’ demands, or how they relate to the ongoing assault on Gaza. To help correct the record, the LPE Blog reached out to law s

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