As pro-Palestinian and anti-war protests spread to college campuses across the country, one phrase keeps popping up: “outside agitator.” MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin debunks the decades-old trope and calls out the boogeyman narrative for what it really is: an effort to discredit, delegitimize and marginalize an entire movement.
Columbia University, the epicenter of US student protests against the war in Gaza, on Monday cancelled its main graduation ceremony, as colleges seek to contain the demonstrations that have rocked campuses for weeks.- 'Order must prevail' -
For many students who graduated from high school during the Covid pandemic, it will be the second such ceremony that is canceled due to external disruption.
U.S. university presidents joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis on Monday for the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel. This year, the mood at the march was overshadowed by the war in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, the deadliest violence against Jews since Adolf Hitler's regime sought to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. The October attack unleashed a war that has led to a high number of Palestinian deaths, fueling pro-Palestinian protests that have swept U.S. campuses.