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For the protesters and their supporters, the pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations across the globe are part of a proud tradition of student activism that includes the anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s, and the calls to end South African Apartheid in the 1980s. And just as those past protests are now widely accepted to have been on the right side of history, today\u2019s campus protesters are confident that history will prove their cause was just.\xa0

Critics disagree. They say the protesters have often downplayed or made excuses for Hamas\u2019 murderous attack on Oct. 7; that the demonstrators fail to consider the complexity of a conflict that cannot be simplified into simple binary terms; and that some of the protesters have indulged in violent and hateful rhetoric towards Israelis and Jews.\xa0

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Arguing in favour of the resolution is Ben Burgis. He\u2019s a columnist with Jacobin and an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University.

Arguing against the resolution is James Kirchick. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. He\u2019s also a columnist for Tablet magazine, and a writer at large for Air Mail.

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Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students, WPA Film Library, Getty Images, ABC 7 New York, The Hill.\xa0

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