The Free Palestine Protests and the Election

Campus protests will likely resume in the fall. This raises some important challenges for the movement.

During the last few weeks as protests roiled American campuses, and many university administrators and state governments responded with excessive force that, in most cases, only heightened tensions, the question of what impact campus protests would have on the coming presidential election-or as I heard it most frequently phrased “will this hurt Biden?”-became unavoidable.