BEIRUT — College students throughout the Center East and globally are downing their pens, ditching class and becoming a member of in with pro-Palestinian protests in solidarity with a wave of campus protests which have swept throughout the US in current weeks.
From Kuwait to Lebanon, in Egypt and Ramallah, college students have occupied central places on campuses and on Monday and Tuesday waved placards calling for an finish to the struggle in Gaza and divestment by their universities from corporations that do enterprise with Israel.