Pro-Palestinian supporters protesting at the University of Pennsylvania. — The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
STUDENT protest movements in America are often messy and divisive, but they tend to be on the right side of history. If President Joe Biden doesn’t take the anti-war protests more seriously, he is likely to end up on the wrong side of history and the November election as well.
From the Vietnam War and civil rights movements in the 1960s to the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s and Black Lives Matter in 2020, these efforts sought to tackle the role of US institutions and government in perpetuating injustices.
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