I imagine you may have seen the photos of the extraordinary outfits worn by many celebrities. Well talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. Lets start with the Campus Protests in the us. Reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and were going to talk it through with journalists whove been on the ground. But before we meet them, lets remind ourselves whats been unfolding over the past month. So, these protests started at Columbia University in new york in mid april. According to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. According to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. And the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. Now, in some locations, police have been sent in, not least at Columbia University in new york, and that was seen as being hugely significant, not least b
Campuses, terrible violence breaking out, buildings being taken over, police clashing with demonstrators. For two weeks ive been asking, where is President Biden . Why isnt he addressing this Huge National crisis on television . I cannot fathom why he is not speaking out. When the white house says, oh, hes denounced all this, not. These are statements coming from a deputy press secretary. The next moshing under pressure from the media morning in an unscheduled event and at the last minute, the president finally found the words. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations, there should be no place on any campus, no place in america for antisemitism or threats of violence against jewish students. Howard that took place after donald trump addressed the protests in a fox interview after a full day in court and at a weve rally. To every College Presid
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And for the thousands of protesters across the country their reasons for demonstrating vary. This is for the people of palestine and were going to draft an agreement that is best that shows them we have not given up. I think its important that students and everyone know that the Jewish Community is not were not going to give into Anti Semitism. Especially as a jewish student with members of my family. Who died in the holocaust, i want to do everything i can to protest against this genocide that is happening against palestinians. We are all here as intelligent people who have autonomy to and we have a lot of privilege in being able to stand up and do what we love and stand up and protect the community we think deserves rejection. Even though i graduate in a week, i dont think this is going to end for me as a story. They dont want it to end for me as a story. This is truly an Intergenerational Movement and that is part of the reason why i think it is time to listen. I think is only a mat