At the end of spring semester, encampments popped up at universities across the country to protest the genocide in Gaza. A few weeks ago, I led a teach-in at the encampment at Princeton on how to respond to the arguments made by Israel’s apologists in the West. The students asked perceptive and sometimes challenging questions in the Q&A. I enjoyed the discussion.

I thought about those students last week when I saw an article in the New York Times about a different group of student Palestine protesters, about an hour and half away from Princeton. Dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University (NYU) at the end of April.

According to the Times: