UNIVERSITY and college students have rattled the US establishment in ways not seen for decades. They have risen to revolt against a long-held foreign policy of blind loyalty to Israel, and called on universities to divest from companies that are directly or indirectly involved in the arms trade with Israel.
The rapidly-spreading university students protests – first kicked off by Columbia University students in New York – have laid bare Washington’s cantankerous foreign policy fault lines in the wake of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Protests have also spread to Europe, Australia and Canada. Israel’s reputation as
