@middleeastmatters: 🗣 “The Vietnam War stopped because the people opposed it and the people who led that were students.” 🗣 “This is not about Columbia. This the conscience of a nation speaking through your kids, through young people who are risking their futures, who are risking suspension, expulsion, criminal arrest, in order to wake people up in this country.” Columbia University Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi addressed the repression of anti-war student protests at Columbia University.