To the editor:

As college campus students protesting the Israel-Gaza War have dominated national news for the past weeks, I’m disappointed by the Journal-World’s choice of opinion page features covering these events. From Rich Lowry smearing Columbia University protestors as “Pro-Hamas” on May 3 to Mona Charen’s piece equivocating these protests as a “mirror MAGA” on May 5, these features fail to address even the basic on-ground facts of what is happening at these protests: that these students chose to protest a war and in response, their own college administrations called in police dressed in riot gear to attack them with flash bangs, LRADs and tear gas. On May 3 the Journal-World ran a cartoon by Phil Hands depicting a student protester saying they had a “minor in anti-semitism”; meanwhile in the real world, a UCLA student went viral after being shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the LAPD on May 2.

Zane Hayden,

Lawrence