Administrators at universities as varied as Emory, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University have called the cops on students protesting their school’s financial ties to Israel’s war on Gaza. To hear about the suppression of dissent on campuses across the country, we commissioned dispatches directly from student journalists. “Tensions on campus show no signs of abating anytime soon. A path forward will require more than just fancy rhetoric,” writes Meher Bhatia, a senior at Cornell University.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, families are starving as a result of Israel’s siege. “There was gunfire and strange sounds everywhere. We tried to understand what was happening, but we couldn’t because there was shooting and chaos all around,” writes a 14-year-old girl named Lujayn. In her dispatch, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould, she describes her mother’s strength and her miraculous escape from her home as an Israeli bulldozer demolished it.

“Opposing genocide is good politics and good policy. #CeasefireNow,” Representative Summer Lee tweeted on Tuesday after winning her primary in a landslide. On April 20, Lee was one of just 37 House Democrats who voted against the $14.3 billion package to keep arming Israel. As John Nichols argues, “More cautious and compromising politicians might have avoided a supposedly controversial vote on the eve of a high-profile primary. But Lee went with her conscience.”

No one person can effect significant change, but together we can face the most challenging problems of our age: loneliness, staggering inequality, forever wars, and environmental degradation, writes Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins in his intro to his interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix about their new book Solidarity. “Solidarity is a concept that can inform our thinking about the economy and the state, as well as social movements and society more broadly,” Hunt-Hendrix tells Steinmetz-Jenkins. “The model we are most interested in is the one in which solidarity presents itself as an alternative to unity or sameness, and offers a way of bridging differences to create new collective identities.”

-Alana Pockros

Engagement Editor, The Nation