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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
imageStudents erect 'shantytowns' at Johns Hopkins University in 1986 to call for divestment from South Africa.JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado via Getty Images

In 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.

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