Palestinian protests by taking aim at high education’s high tuition costs and questionable payoff. Rather than tackle the Gaza issue itself, SNL instead went with the POV of parents, featuring a NY1 roundtable of parents concerned about their children attending the school.

Live‘s latest cold open took aim at Columbia University’s handling of the pro-Palestinian protests on campus amid the Israel–Hamas war. During the sketch, Mikey Day, Kenan Thompson and Heidi Gardner played concerned parents of students participating in the protests.

As college campus protests ignite across the U.S. over the Israel-Palestine conflict, “ SNL ” weighed in with its cold open this week as Kenan Thompson played an incredulous parent of a Columbia University student.

The cold open introduces us to two white parents who support their kids’ choice to protest, and one Black parent whose kid “knows better.”

This week's "Saturday Night Live" cold open tackled the topic that's been at the forefront of the news the last few weeks: the student protests at college campuses across the country. But with such a politically charged topic,