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Student protests against Israeli action in Gaza: a cross-European analysis of newspaper representations
- Abstract:
- Research into student political activity across Europe has shown how the media can play a key role in shaping how such activity is framed. For example, newspapers have often focused on the violent nature of student protest, which has had the effect of diverting attention away from the specific concerns of students, and presenting students, rather than the issues that they were protesting about, as a threat to society. This article develops this analysis – of the role of newspapers in mediating student protests – by focussing on coverage of protests against Israeli action in Gaza, which took place in many European countries in the spring and summer of 2024, inspired by similar action on US campuses. It draws on articles from four European countries (France, Ireland, Spain and the UK) to argue, first, that there is considerable cross-national variation in constructions of protesting students, raising questions about the sometimes-assumed homogenisation of European higher education; and, second, that it is erroneous to assume that the media always serves to delegitmise student protest – noting the celebratory discourses evident in both Ireland and Spain.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/13676261.2026.2643217
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Group
- Journal:
- Journal of Youth Studies More from this journal
- Pages:
- 1–17
- Publication date:
- 2026-03-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2026-03-05
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1469-9680
- ISSN:
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1367-6261
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English
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2385473
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2026-03-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Rachel Brooks
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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- © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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