What's Different About Student Activism Over the Israel-Hamas War: Paul Hennesy, Anadolu, Getty Images Students at the U. of Central Florida hold a rally in support of Palestinians on October 13

[...]more activity is likely in the coming days, with the national Students for Justice in Palestine group issuing a second call to action for its campus chapters this week. In its latest toolkit for campus chapters, Students for Justice in Palestine called on protesting students to make two demands: that colleges “fully divest” from corporations that “arm Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” and “an immediate end” to both Israel’s siege on Gaza and U.S. military funding to Israel. Students for Justice in Palestine and many of its chapters across the country have used social media to post statements condemning the war or their colleges’ responses to it. The divide stems from a greater trend where liberal beliefs often don’t address Palestinian oppression, said Charles H.F. Davis III, an assistant professor with the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. [...]of the pandemic, many of the informal mentoring and guidance networks within campus communities have fallen apart, he said.