student protests

The complaint argues that the governor’s order is an illegal attempt to suppress a viewpoint critical of a foreign country — Israel.

The UT Austin campus was quiet Wednesday after a pro-Palestinian rally was postponed. The university said demonstrators had brought weapons — including guns, rocks, bricks and chains — to a protest a day earlier.

A coalition of student groups from six campuses in San Antonio and San Marcos sent letters to their college presidents on Wednesday, calling on them to stand against Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent antisemitism executive order, which they said conflates supporting Palestinians with antisemitism.

The governor ordered public colleges and universities in Texas to revise their free speech policies to punish antisemitism. He named pro-Palestinian student groups for discipline, including possible expulsion.

Students across the Southwest walked out of class in the late 1960s and early 1970s to protest what they believed to be discriminatory policies directed…