Scenes from college campuses across the U.S. have shocked the world. From Columbia University to the University of Texas at Austin, riot police and other heavily-armed security forces have been deployed to suppress encampments of peaceful pro-Palestine demonstrators. Hundreds of students and professors have been arrested. Politicians and college administrators have threatened to call the National Guard to break up the encampments. These developments are reminiscent of the anti-Viet Nam war movement that led to four students being killed by the National Guard on May 4, 1970, during an anti-war protest at Kent State University.
