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India’s Cockroach Protests End; Modi Government Bows To Demands

July 25, 2026 Biplob Kumar Das, DropSite News. , , , ,
Delhi—Protesters occupying the central parts of Delhi, India were triumphant on Saturday evening after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government accepted all demands raised by the movement’s leaders, including the resignation of the country’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The protest was spearheaded by the newly formed Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)—a wordplay on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The word “cockroach” is attributed to the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, who in May referred to the youth of the country as “cockroaches” during a court hearing.

Palestine And The Role Of The Activist Intellectual

July 13, 2026 Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss. , , , , , , ,
Bruce Robbins is a professor of literature at Columbia. His new book Who’s Allowed to Protest explores the new McCarthyism in which campus supporters of justice for Palestine serve as the “new Communists, identified in the media… as supporters of violence and terror whose presence in American institutions is intolerable.” Liberals have failed to defend the protesters’ rights, Robbins writes. While right-wing critics have sought to discredit the protesters as spoiled elitists, and the left-wing critique of “unwarranted privilege” has also undermined the role of elites. Robbins’s book responds by outlining the obligations of the privileged to speak out.

Swarthmore Nine On Trial For Pro-Palestine Encampment

June 26, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. , , ,
Philadelphia — Students at Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, held a nonviolent, pro-Palestine encampment on campus in May 2025. They protested the college administration’s support, through a $2.7 billion endowment, of companies supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza, specifically Cisco Systems. The encampment was named after Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed by the Israel Occupation Forces. Despite the college’s liberal legacy of supporting peaceful protests, campus President Valerie Smith and Vice President Stephanie Ives refused to negotiate.

The Student Tenant Union Movement Is Spreading To Appalachia

June 18, 2026 Anabel Peterman, Next City. , , ,
For Morehead State University students Allison ‘Al’ Belter and Madi Reffitt, residents of the university dorms aren’t just students: As people who pay a property owner to inhabit a residence, they’re tenants, too. With tenant unionization picking up steam in Kentucky and around the country, students organizing through Kentucky Tenants’ MSU chapter are calling on the university to provide better living conditions for their tenants. The student organization is bringing its demands to Morehead State’s Board of Regents this summer, after months of preparing their campaign.

New School Investigates Student Leaders Who Voted To Strip Hillel Of Funding Over Genocide Complicity

June 9, 2026 Biplob Kumar Das, Scheer Post. , , , , , , ,
When members of The New School’s Student Senate were faced with a report detailing how Hillel International was providing material and logistical support to Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, they voted on May 1 to cut all ties with their campus chapter of the national Jewish college network and to strip its funding. The student leaders hoped the school’s administration would go on to investigate Hillel’s presence on its New York City campus. Instead, after an intense pressure campaign by pro-Israel groups, advocates, and elected representatives, the university’s administration is now investigating the student senators who voted to cut ties with Hillel.

Here Is Why We Sanctioned Hillel At The New School

June 5, 2026 Ryder Glickman, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Two years after University administrators and state actors destroyed the Gaza Solidarity Encampments, expelled and deported students, and smeared anyone protesting against the genocidal Zionist state and in support of a liberated Palestine, the student movement is developing new tactics. One of these tactics involves challenging, exposing, and removing Hillel from our campuses. The New School, where I was chair of the Student Senate, was the first example. It should not be the last.   In May 2026, the New School’s Student Senate sanctioned its chapter of Hillel, a Zionist organization that operates on 850 campuses worldwide, by designating them  “Not in Good Standing,” suspending all funding and collaboration.

German Students Expand Strike Against Conscription, Militarization

May 15, 2026 Henriette Kleiner, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
On May 8, 45,000 students joined a school strike against conscription and militarization in 150 cities across the country. The strike was held on the 81st anniversary of Victory Day, which brought peace to Europe at the end of World War II. This was the third school strike since December 5, 2025, the day the new conscription law was passed unanimously by the German parliament, the Bundestag. In Berlin, around 7,500 students marched from Brandenburger Tor to the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the party of current Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

New School Students Sanction Group Over Israeli Military Program

May 13, 2026 Joseph Mogul, Truthout. , , , , ,
Ryder Glickman’s first day as chair of The New School University Student Senate (USS) was an eventful one. His inaugural act was to call a vote on a first-of-its-kind resolution to sanction Hillel at The New School. This vote followed the release of a 38-page report detailing Hillel’s potential violations of international law. The report, conducted by a student committee, outlines Hillel’s participation in programs with the Israeli military. Before and during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the campus organization was linked to a volunteer program at Israeli military bases from which attacks on Gaza and Lebanon originated.

Students And Teachers Strike Against Right-Wing Reforms, Militarization

May 10, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Students and teachers in over 60 localities across Italy striked on May 7 to protest education reforms presented by the Meloni government that seek to subordinate the education sector to industry interests and militarization. The measures include aligning technical and professional courses with employer needs and removing critical content from curricula, while keeping thousands of education workers in precarious positions. The day of mobilization was preceded by an additional sectoral strike day on May 6, and coincided with a new wave of dockworkers’ protests for better working conditions and against arms transfers.

Students Connect Indigenous Culture And Sustainability In Project

May 7, 2026 Albert Bender, People's World. , , ,
Franklin, Tenn.—On Wednesday, April 22, the student-produced Global Concentration Capstone Project was presented at Battle Ground Academy. The Project debuted with an impressive, far-reaching documentary film put together by Battle Ground Senior students Alison Zierdon and Victoria Blanco, ably supervised by Project Director/Teacher Lee Roberts. The Project weas the culmination of months of hard work by students and teacher. Its main theme was “Indigeneity and Sustainability,” emphasizing the connection between Indigenous peoples and the environment.

Lessons From The Gaza Student Encampments, Two Years On

April 30, 2026 Ethan Eblaghie, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On April 17, 2024, Columbia University students hoisted tents onto the grass of the East Butler Lawn, initiating an international reckoning with the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The initial encampment was met immediately with a police sweep and the mass arrest of student participants, but this did not deter activists and only prompted a second mass entry into the adjacent lawns mere moments later. I was at the second encampment as an admitted student attending spring orientation. The dynamism of that moment feels surreal now – hundreds of people waving hand-painted banners and flags, cheering to song and chant, and the almost comical, stiff communication from the university as it attempted to maintain a veneer of business as usual, all a portent of the institutional reprisal to come.

As Universities Agree To Immigration Enforcement On Campus, Students Fight Back

April 19, 2026 Julia Luz Betancourt, Prism. , , ,
She was beginning her spring semester as a second-year law student and paralegal when she received the news: The immigration clinic where she volunteered would have to stop all work, a demand directly from the Trump administration. The White House issued a stop-work order on Feb. 18, 2025, cutting off aid to federally funded unaccompanied children programs (UCPs) across the U.S. The programs, which provide legal representation to migrant youth who cross the border alone or do not have family in the U.S., were one of the current Trump administration’s first targets.

Palestinian Students Are Fighting For Their Right To Education

April 16, 2026 Ashley Ver Beek, Waging Nonviolence. , , , ,
The scenic campus of Birzeit University sits on a hill near Ramallah, 12 miles northwest of Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Vast blue sky is visible from every road and sidewalk. Palestinian flags wave in the breeze. The familiar campus bustle of classes, friends and events was violently interrupted on Jan. 6, 2026, when Israeli forces raided the university in broad daylight, firing live rounds and employing sound grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds of students. Forty-one people were injured, with three students sustaining gunshot wounds and three hit by shrapnel, according to Al Jazeera.

Student Association Tells Congress: Save Education, Stop The Save Act

March 27, 2026 Brooklyn Crawford, People's World. , , ,
Washington, DC — “The reality is that our opposition has a lot of money, a lot of power, a lot of momentum. And so it’s our job to ensure that all of us are clear about the assignment,” Gresia Martinez told delegates gathered in D.C. this past weekend for the United States Student Association’s 48th national grassroots legislative conference. Martinez is executive director of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. She said student activists have to “be relentless, not seek out easy or short victories…and look at the long arc.” The good thing, she said, is they don’t have to do it alone.

Judge Ordered Leqaa Kordia To Be Released From ICE Detention

March 14, 2026 Sam Judy, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
One year ago, on March 13, 2025, Palestinian Columbia protester Leqaa Kordia was arrested and detained after turning herself into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in New Jersey.  Today, Friday, March 13, 2026,  an immigration judge just ordered her release for the third time. In her third and final bond hearing, Kordia’s lawyer Sarah Sherman-Stokes, once again presented ample evidence that, despite arguments from DHS, her client is not a flight risk and should be eligible for bond.  Kordia is the last remaining Columbia protester in detention and was arrested shortly after fellow protester Mahmoud Khalil. 
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