Warnings of ‘unprecedented’ threat to student speech in US

There is increasing concern at universities in the United States over a crackdown on dissent. Across the nation, there have been reports of student visas being revoked, with some cases tied to the students’ pro-Palestinian activism and others where the motives remain unclear. That has prompted a coalition of national student media advisory organisations to issue a rare alert suggesting that student newsrooms re-examine their policies. In this edition of Scoop, we speak to Anvee Bhutani, a journalist and student at Columbia University.