Lynsi Burton wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Lynsi is a crime and breaking news reporter for seattlepi.com and is from Seattle. She was a YES! editorial intern in 2009 and also contributes to Seattle Business Magazine.
Amid accusations of genocide and widespread human rights abuses, Senator Bernie Sanders champions amendments to halt offensive military funding to Israel, sparking a critical Senate debate.
Solidarity protests and encampments have now sprouted up on campuses across the country, including at Yale, MIT, Tufts, NYU, The New School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.