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George Shay's avatar

Clearly, the Trump Administration should designate SJP as a terrorist organization and prosecute it and its members to the full extent of the law, as well as take the most extreme actions possible against any academic institution that countenances its presence on campus.

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——The coming year, therefore, will pose a test for university leaders, both students and administrators:

"Will they stand for the values of free discussion and open inquiry?"

American academia hasn't stood for these values in quite a while, maybe not since this year's freshmen were infants. In the minds of our progressive clerisy, "free discussion and open inquiry" could lead to some students "feeling unsafe", esp among the "marginalized", thus these things are discouraged if not denounced. The last place anyone should expect "free discussion and open inquiry" is at an upscale American university.

...."and fulfill their role as guardians of a safe environment for students, free of bullying and intimidation?"

The progressive clerisy has already answered this question: for every other group "speech is violence", esp if it is ugly and based on retrograde stereotypes, but for Jews "violence is speech", meaning that a pack of shrieking kids calling for your murder needs to be placed "in context", and should be excused because these shrieking kids just care so deeply about Palestinian children and their blood and tears.

"Or will they continue to allow an organization that promotes terror to terrorize our campuses under the guise of free speech?"

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all our most prestigious universities have converted to the Social Justice faith (it is their product, creation and credential, after all) and in the Social Justice faith, Israel is the world's great pariah, Jews are automatically suspect unless they publicly denounce their faith and people, and Zionists are the new Nazis.

Just like its Marxist grandparent, the Social Justice movement has decided that Jews are the enemy that needs to be destroyed for its utopian vision to be achieved, and as this movement is based in our most famous universities, this is the last place Jews should look to for support. Hating Israel and its supporters is a new mandatory belief for entry into the progressive clerisy that runs our colleges and culture, which means the old is new again.

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