Pakistan, April 27 -- Student activism has been around for centuries. So imagine the surprise when the same students, while doing what is largely known to be a part of their college identity, find themselves pitted against armed-to-the-teeth troops.

Now, this might have even made sense in some war-ravaged dictatorship but to see the land of the free resort to such shameful tactics in a desperate bid to keep up ideological appearances. Last week's arrest of over 100 student demonstrators by New York Police has unleashed a shadow movement of its own. Calling on their universities to finally separate themselves from any corporation that publicly sides with Israel in the military offensive in Gaza, student groups have popped up on campuses i...