In a way, the black-and-white Palestinian scarf draped over Hannah Sattler’s shoulders this week and the tie-dyed T-shirts of 1968 are woven from a common thread. Like so many college students across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war, Sattler feels the historic weight of the anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of the 1960s and 70s. “They always talked about the ’68 protest as sort of a North Star,” Sattler, 27, a graduate student of international human rights policy at Columbia University, said of the campus organizers there.
The difference between the two eras is how local law enforcement interpreted trespassing laws.
Not to mention the sociopolitical climate and the skin color of the protesters.
I don’t know about skin color. It’s Indiana. It was mostly white students both times.