US universities crack down on Palestine protests

After months of campus protests over the war in Gaza, universities are doing something unusual: penalising students for illegal or rule-breaking demonstrations.

This week, during a student dinner at the personal home of the Berkeley Law School’s dean, a group of students protested the school’s supposed funding of weapons used in Gaza and refused to leave, despite it being a private residence. The dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, promised that any other students who disrupted events at his home would be reported to the institution and to the Bar, a penalty that can potentially...