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WASHINGTON - A deep generational divide, anti-war protests on college campuses and a looming Chicago Democratic convention invite comparisons between today's protests against Israel’s attacks in Gaza and the movement against the Vietnam War.
Students at dozens of schools across the U.S. have rallied or camped out to oppose Israel's war in Gaza, demanding institutions stop doing business with companies that support the war. Police have arrested over 2,000 protesters.The growing death toll in Gaza and images of the widespread destruction there have swayed public opinion, with support for Israel's military assault dropping from 50% in a November Gallup poll to 36% in late March.
Some of those protests were also violent, unlike the largely peaceful demonstrations seen thus far in response to Israel's war in Gaza, he said. Now, the U.S. has over 15 million undergraduate students, with white students accounting for about 41%, Latino students 18%, Black students 11% and Asian students 6%, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Women outnumber men on college campuses.
A YouGov poll released Thursday showed that 53% of adults felt that college administrators' decision to suspend and expel some pro-Palestinian protesters was"about right" or"not harsh enough." That number jumps to 68% for those aged 65 and over. "In 1968, one of the great failures of the party establishment was that they ignored anti-war youth and continued the horrific war in Vietnam and alienated young voters, and I feel like they're at risk of doing the same thing," he said.
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