Lessons From Oth­er Cam­pus Protests

The year was 1966 and Ronald Rea­gan was run­ning for gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia. A major part of his plat­form was to “clean up the mess at Berke­ley” and oth­er col­lege cam­pus­es through­out the state that were expe­ri­enc­ing protests and strikes over issues that includ­ed the mil­i­tary draft, civ­il rights and “women’s issues.” While not on a scale of the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-Amer­i­ca and Jew­ish hatred we are wit­ness­ing now on sev­er­al col­lege cam­pus­es, Reagan’s response cou …