Gaza campus protests: Why the 1960s student demos and police reaction is relevant today
Demonstrators are detained by police in an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus last week. It is possible that images of injured students in zip-tie handcuffs may bring the Israel-Palestine conflict to the fore of young Americans' issues, but it is unlikely.
For anybody interested in the history of the 1960s, the ongoing protests at US universities have a peculiar resonance.
In the past weeks, riot police have entered several college campuses at the behest of administrators to break up unauthorised encampments of students protesting the war in Gaza and calling on their universities to divest from companies supporting Israel.
