The Presidents of Harvard, MIT, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Penn should be forced to resign

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How do you define “working on their behalf”?

1A protections exist for citizens and non-citizens alike, don’t they? If a US citizen is allowed to express support for something we all rightly consider to be awful, then I think the same should be true for a non-citizen.

Do you agree or disagree with that?

As for campus protests, I think universities should permit some level of political activism if they’re peaceful and not intentionally blocking access to buildings. Regardless of how righteous their cause is or which coddled group is made to feel “unsafe” by the words spoken.

If protesters are threatening people or selectively targeting certain passersby, they should face punishment.

It also seems to me there are a lot of agitators (both pro-Israeli and anti-Israeli) who are intentionally trying to create physical confrontations. That needs to stop.

 

I already said protesters shouldn’t selectively target passersby. I don’t think they should selectively target people who are just “being there” either.

I think there should be certain rules that counter protestors abide by, to avoid physical confrontations on university campuses that could quickly spiral into a riot. That’s my position, regardless of whether these counter protesters are leftists, conservatives, pro-Palestinian, or pro-Israelis.

Purposely trying to organize shouting matches between groups of protesters, which could easily devolve into violence (and perhaps with that outcome being desired), is not a good idea. The university is right to disallow it.

 

That isn’t what I said. Protests can lead to some disruption to normal campus life — that’s the price of valuing free speech on college campuses. But if that disruption is specifically targeting certain students or faculty on account of them being Jewish, or if they become violent, that is wrong and needs to stop. I think I’ve said it multiple times.

As I’ve said earlier, universities need to find a balance between permitting protests (even for viewpoints that are ugly and uncomfortable) and maintaining the general peace. It’s a difficult problem. Some concrete limits probably need to be imposed and enforced for the duration and scale of these protests. I don’t see how a university can function properly otherwise.

 

Not a twitterer, but I want a #StopArrestingOurKids trend.

I have a kid at college. Not one in the news this month but they've arrested kids in the past for a sit-in in an Admin office. If you're doing a sit-in at an Admin office, I hope you're planning to be arrested. But the recent arrests at Columbia and NYU are students sitting outside on the quad. As a parent, I'd be pissed that the institution I pay tens of thousands to called the cops on my kid and pursued trespassing charges against them for sitting outside in a place I pay for them to be. In fact, it's not impossible that my kid does get arrested in exactly that scenario. Then we have to decide if this institution is worthy of my child's matriculation.

There and at Columbia, the issue of the sit-ins is not protesting Israel or the war, though there is anti-war sentiment. The demand is to change the rules that govern the investment choices for the schools' large endowments, specifically their choice to invest in a weapons manufacturer. Reforming the social responsibility framework around the investment book seems to me to be a Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Time-bound goal to pursue. It relates to their own complicity in war by being associated with an institution that invests in war, so their activity is relevant. I'm sure folks will find this or that anecdote of antisemitic behavior by some protestor, but I don't believe it is fundamentally antisemitic and has many Jews and even Israelis involved, because it is more about ESG than it is anti-Zionism. So, to have a kid arrested over that, over demanding changes to ESG -- not just ignored or denied but actually arrested, suspended, and perhaps denied a diploma -- is plain ridiculous.

 

They can camp all they want
Hamas gonna get wrecked

Let’s go IDF!


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These aren't just students. The left needs to chill with the funding of these folks.