
The Electronic Intifada | J Greim/Newscom
The message from Washington has been clear: the college campus is a new political battleground. Comply or lose federal funding. Student activists, the Gaza encampments, sympathetic faculty – anyone at the university who is perceived as advocating for Palestinian rights has put themselves at significant risk. University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) has remade itself in anticipatory compliance with anti-war repression.