Five Lessons for Palestine Activists From the ’60s Student Left
The 1960s saw massive student uprisings for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. Here are five lessons from the ’60s for Palestine solidarity protesters today.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators use a large Palestinian flag to block the doors to Bell Hall as they rally on the campus of George Washington University on May 2, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
“You’re disgusting!” shouted a young man draped in an Israeli flag. “You’re terrorists!”
Israel supporters had gathered to confront a Palestine solidarity encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In just a few hours, I saw them antagonize, shove, and spit on a peaceful group of students.
In their presence, I was reminded of the white mobs who tried and failed to intimidate black and white students holding sit-ins and marches to desegregate the US South in the early 1960s. Three nights later, Zionists shot fireworks and tried to break through barriers to destroy the encampment.
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