Calls for divestment from apartheid South Africa gave today’s pro-Palestinian student activists a blueprint to follow
- Written by Amanda Joyce Hall, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Students erect 'shantytowns' at Johns Hopkins University in 1986 to call for divestment from South Africa.JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado via Getty ImagesIn recent weeks, college campuses across the U.S. have been roiled by pro-Palestinian protests, with the police called in to arrest demonstrators and students threatened with expulsion.
But...