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Campus Protests Fizzle Out in 2025
(Jewish Insider) Gabby Deutch - For a brief moment, it looked like 2024 all over again on Tuesday night: Tents were erected at Yale University's central plaza, with anti-Israel activists hoping to loudly protest the visit of an Israeli minister to campus. But then something unexpected happened. University administrators showed up, threatening disciplinary action, and the protesters were told to leave - or face consequences. So they left. The next day, Yale announced that it had revoked its recognition of Yalies4Palestine, the student group that organized the protest. "In general, protest activity is way down this year as compared to last year," said Hillel International CEO Adam Lehman. Jewish students, leaders, and professionals attribute the change to stricter consequences from university leaders, fear of running afoul of President Trump's pledge to deport pro-Hamas foreign students, and the issue generally losing steam and cachet among students. "For the most part, the enforcement of rules, the understanding of what the rules are, what you can do, what you can't do, requiring people to get permits for protests, has really calmed things down [from] the sort of violence that we saw last year," said Jordan Acker, a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan.