The Protests That Anticipated Today’s Gaza Solidarity Encampments

Across the country, college and university students have established Gaza Solidarity Encampments on their campuses to protest what they see as their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s indiscriminate warfare against Gaza, only to be met in some cases with police repression, arrests, and violence. These encampments can be seen as part of a longstanding American tradition of nonviolent civil disobedience. The encampments, which include many anti-Zionist Jewish students, opted for bold, nonviolent...