In Pictures: A Year of Protest and Pain

On the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which ignited a war in Gaza that is now entering its second year, we look back at how the conflict played out on college campuses across the country as students—including those at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, below—faced off in support of their cause. The demonstrations fueled hostility, anger, fear, retribution and fiery debate over higher education’s core mission and values. And they’re not over yet.