Gaza update: US students protest while leaders talk and Palestinians continue to die

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor

Over the past few days we seem to have been hearing more about the protests roiling the campuses of some of the most prestigious universities in the US over the ongoing crisis in Gaza than about the ongoing crisis in Gaza itself.

To say the conflict is a divisive issue is a massive understatement and other countries have seen their share of bitter debate and confrontation during protests on the streets of some major cities. But the US protests raise an issue tied to a key question about how universities should be run: the need to protect free speech and rigorous debate.

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