Why has policing of US campus protests gone so wrong?

Exactly they are anti-zionist, not anti-semitic and the keffiyeh and their flags are so trendy. I am sure the writer would support a Anti -Black lives matters peaceful protest composed of student, professors, and other who are not anti black, setting up camp wearing trendy white capirotes and robes and flying confederate flags on campus. Strange the writer doesn't realize this isn't just a micro aggression against Jewish students but a macro aggression.

Many things are far too polarised these days, no middle ground. The current Gaza conflict is an example, we have pro-Palestinians calling 'from the river to the sea", and pro-Zionists calling for the total suppresion of Hamas, maybe even Israeli occupation "from the sea to the river". Where where is the compromise, as suggested by the UN back in 1948, of a two State solution, maybe now, given all those years of conflict, distrust, policed by a UN buffer zone say 1 km wide, at least until those 2 states have learned to live with each other and both have the right to exist. Nobody on these campuses is calling for any middle ground,

It's sad, I've had to put my keffiyeh (bought on holiday in Egypt in 1994!) away just so people don't make assumptions about my opinions! To my mind, a Hamas outrage on 7 October has been compounded by a massive over-reaction by the State of Israel. The local police do not react to a local murder by carpetbombing the housing estate where the perpetrators live, after all - they send in appropriate officers, armed if necessary, to arrest them. A plague on both their houses! Both Palestinis and Israelis have the right to live in peace: if they cannot or will not (the latter, I suspect) live together in peace, this should be enforced upon them by UN mandate and peacekeepers patrolling a buffer zone between them.

To M. Roberson. Israel has had daily murders since 1948. This went beyond a few dead Israeli citizens which happens on a daily basis.