Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2026
ISSN
0006-8047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In the spring of 2024, thousands of university students joined campus protests advocating for Palestinian human rights and calling on their institutions to divest from Israel’s military assault on Gaza.1 The student action echoed historical protest movements that universities routinely celebrate in their brochures, monuments, and signage.2 Yet rather than embrace their students’ principled activism, universities across the country deployed militarized force against their own communities.3 From elite Ivies in the northeast, to large privates in the Midwest, to state schools in Texas and California, administrators greeted peaceful protest with discipline, smears, and physical violence.
Recommended Citation
Jonathan Feingold,
Foreword: The Universities Will Not Save Us
,
106
Boston University Law Review
viii
(2026).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/4305
