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As a new academic year gets underway in the United States, students and faculty have braced for pro-Palestinian protests like those that roiled U.S. campuses in the spring amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
On Sept. 3, classes, and protests, resumed at Columbia University, which was the epicenter of activism in April. As a new academic year gets underway in the United States, students and faculty have braced for pro-Palestinian protests like those that roiled U.
S. campuses in the spring amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. On Sept.
3, classes, and protests, resumed at Columbia University, which was the epicenter of activism in April. In the spring, student demonstrators across the country sought a range of goals, including the expression of solidarity with the Palestinians, an end to U.S.
military aid to Israel, a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, and university divestment from businesses linked to Israel. At many universities, administrators called on campus police or local law enforcement to clear protest encampments, often resulting in student arrests. Some universities suspended or expelled student protesters or barred them from graduating.
The Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project at William & Mary's Global Research Institute, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, recently surveyed international relations scholars at U.S. colleges and universities about their views on the conflict in the Middle East and related student protests.
The results reported below are based on responses from 733 IR experts—nearly all of whom are political scientists—surveyed between June 25 and July 14. (Complete results can be found here.) The foreign-policy experts we surveyed overwhelmingly disapprove of ongoing Israeli military action in Gaza and say the issue is a very important one to them in the U.
S. presidential election in November. They also believe that the student protests will hurt the Democratic Party in that election.
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