‘Police raids are nothing new’: student protesters from 1960s see history repeating itself

Anti-Vietnam war activists from Tariq Ali to the Weather Underground on the remarkable parallels with today’s pro-Palestinian uprising – and authorities’ responsesEarly last week, days before the NYPD raid, Eleanor Stein poked around the edges of the Gaza Solidarity encampment at Columbia University. The area was the hub of the pro-ceasefire, pro-divestment, pro-Palestinian protest movement that has, in recent weeks, spread across the United States (and, more recently, Canada a