American students should protest for as long as it takes to end a genocide.

The current fascist is a direct result of previous fascists. Genocide normalizes fascism.

This liberal support for genocide and fascism is a major part of the problem.

You do yourself and any potential ally a disservice when you spout negative bullshit like this. And it is bullshit because what you're saying is nonsensical and fucking being upvoted (come on lemmy, we're better than this).

What do pro-Palestinian student protesters at US universities want?

They are demanding that their schools, many with massive endowments, financially divest from Israel.

What is the effective message of protesting at a university over Trump? People have been organizing protests, but what part are you demanding the students actually protest? Just... protest Trump in general? at the University? Protesting till he's taken out of office or some action is performed?

I honestly want to see the rest of the government make a choice of bowing or standing up to the would-be king before we call to send in the children. Let us know where everyone in the system stands because once Uni kids get involved with mass protesting.... it's gonna get dicey real fast.

I really hope the unwarranted attacks that everyone is spewing at each other is statistically on the decline, it really needs to be shot down the instant it's seen so we don't have actual trolls and bots getting footholds.

What’s an illegal protest? I

Opposing genocide.

I thought first amendment speech covered that

Oh you precious child.

Also, how can he expel a student from a school he doesn’t control? or does he mean expel students from the country?

The schools don't need Trump to expel their own students.

• Third student expelled from Columbia's Barnard College for pro-Palestinian activities

That's because left-wing politicians are still politicians. They want to remain politicians they don't want to end up getting arrested or lose their jobs, so they are only going to push back against this to the limit of which they think they can get away with, which basically means making statements, but otherwise not really doing anything.

If you want action you'll have to do it yourself. Unfortunately this does present a bit of a problem because you are then playing into the narrative that the Right have, that everyone who opposes them is a criminal. Because by definition you'll have to commit crimes in order to oppose them, since they will make opposing them a crime. Welcome to the wonderful circular logic of extremists.