Latest comic: Where's the crisis?

(Drawn before events of last week, but still relevant!)

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The antisemitism awareness act, passed by congress yesterday, makes it illegal to criticize Israel on college campuses. Clear violation of the constitution, free speech.

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President Biden unveils Biden-Harris administration's plan to deliver #studentloan #debtrelief to 30 million more people.

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#education #debt #studentdebt

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/08/president-joe-biden-outlines-new-plans-to-deliver-student-debt-relief-to-over-30-million-americans-under-the-biden-harris-administration/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR14dzSmbF_1-oRbKomavC5ruY8E8HyOzp6VcMAEsM0IlnChWuhYx9SyT5I_aem_Aek95WuWjMUVRS13vnn2SnOhKd6Zfa4hTS-El9sFhfkePz6JaSVr9jVNU_5nfbQ66SMlqFv9rIwsQ445DTYpdnnS

President Joe Biden Outlines New Plans to Deliver Student Debt Relief to Over 30 Million Americans Under the Biden-Harris Administration | The White House

Today, Biden-Harris Administration leaders will fan out across the country as President Biden announces his Administration’s new plans to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans.

^{The White House}

I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.

This is from 2016.

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In the late ‘60s, to right-wing activists, communists were over-running #college campuses and #university administrators needed to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.

In 2024, to right-wing activists, antisemites are over-running college campuses and university administrators need to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.

A historian of the reaction to campus protests lays out the parallels:
https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732 @academicchatter

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.

^{The Conversation}

New York City police have arrested more than 100 people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza on the campus of Columbia University. A student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest set up an encampment on Wednesday to protest the school’s “continued financial investment in corporations that profit from Israeli apartheid.” University President Minouche Shafik warned demonstrators that they were not allowed to set up tents and occupy the grounds before police started forcibly removing them. USA Today has more on the ongoing protest.

https://flip.it/EqvQRn

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NYPD arrests over 100 at pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University

Dozens arrested for participating in Thursday's protest; student group says police became violent.

^{, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)}

Latest comic: If media talked about the donor class the way it talks about college students

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