In Campus Protests Over Gaza, Echoes of Outcry Over Vietnam

"Richard Flacks remembers the challenges of building a protest movement during the Vietnam War as a pillar of the left-wing political and antiwar group Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s. 'The whole idea of S.D.S. began with the idea of, We need a new way of being on the left, a new vocabulary, a new strategy,’ said Mr. Flacks, who helped write the group’s manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, in 1962. 'We knew we were right, and I don’t think we were arrogant about it.' Sixty years later, Iman Abid sees similar challenges in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. ..."

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Students from the Black Students Organization protesting Columbia University’s suspension of the groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.