In an online world, a new generation of protesters chooses anonymity


Pro-Palestinian student protesters demonstrate at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on May 2, 2024. Many protesters have been reluctant to talk to journalists. — The New York Times

Over the past week, Fabiola, a sophomore at Columbia, joined an encampment on her university’s quad, risked suspension and disrupted campus life, all in an effort to draw attention to the Palestinian cause.

She describes stopping Israel’s deadly siege of the Gaza Strip as a moral duty – an urgent imperative around which she has reoriented her life.

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