Gaza protests

When students at Harvard voluntarily dismantled their encampment last week, it marked the end of a month of protests across the Greater Boston area as students across the region voiced their opposition to university investments in companies with ties to Israel as the country continues its war in Gaza.

Emerson University sophomore Juwaria Jama was aware of the risks confronting students demonstrating against Israel’s lethal campaign in Gaza with the arrests of students at Columbia, University of Texas and Ohio fresh in activists’ minds.

Student protests over deadly Israeli military strikes in Gaza have roiled college campuses across America, resulting in fierce debates over free speech, the right to assemble and the responsibility of college administrators to ensure the safety of all its students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community.