Gaza mass grave and campuses protests

Apr 26, 2024 Letters

Dear Editor,

Amidst continuing students’ arrests across US universities campuses as the ongoing pro-Palestine/Israel protests intensify, comes grisly and harrowing evidence as the Gaza mass grave unearth bodies being tortured, executed and buried alive (Al Jazeera April 24).

All of this as the Rafah offensive is ramped up, despite international calls to desist.

Turning to protests across U S campuses, one letter writer has said Ivy League universities are on edge following protests and advocated that students must have the right to peaceful protests on their campuses, even as a Muslim valedictorian at one university is denied making her speech (GT April 25). The writer further advocates that vice-chancellors should welcome and encourage the input of students seeking representation of their views throughout their institutional structures and are willing to engage positively and constructively to this end. The writer then asks ‘isn’t that what their institutions were founded to do?’

The question is: is there the will to defy its donors and stand with its students? The backlash from donors can be decisive, as we saw.

Sincerely,

Shamshun Mohamed

Israel, Palestine, Protests, Shamshun Mohamed

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