Campus tumult: Behind the Israel-Hamas protests on campus

Student protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict, now into its seventh month, have broken out at many university and college campuses in the United States, including encampments at some schools where dug-in pro-Palestinian protestors have become locked in standoffs with school administrators. Traditionally fertile ground for protests, post-secondary schools have become a new flashpoint in the fallout of the conflict amid the rising death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where Israel is waging a war against Hamas in response to an attack across its border Oct. 7 in which more than 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Hamas fighters. Read More