A letter from the Biden administration to Israel this week threatening to possibly withhold weapons raised hopes among some, but the delivery of a missile defense system and deployment of U.S. soldiers sent the real message.

The US and Canada recently took joint action to target the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network over alleged "connections to terrorism." The group says the attack is an attempt to criminalize resistance to genocide.

"Despite the McCarthyite environment, the new anti-speech policies, the attempts to throw the book at students for minor violations of such policies, the student movement is still going strong," says Palestine Legal attorney Radhika Sainath.