The Great Academic Squirm
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To demand that universities take an institutional stand on issues of the day is to misunderstand their role.

To demand that universities take an institutional stand on issues of the day is to misunderstand their role.

By Eliot A. Cohen

This year, the protests have taken an uglier turn, as encampments have sprouted up. The demonstrators—most of them students, many not, often masked—are calling for divestment by their universities from companies based in or doing business with Israel. Some of the protesters see this goal as an interim step toward the destruction of the state of Israel.

Incredibly cowardly opening paragraph

Ctrl+f “genocide” 0/0 results thonk hmmmmm

  • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    The amnesty and investment reviews are attempts to buy off protesters, in the hope that by the time the university committees do their work, the war in Gaza will be over, and in any case the divestment decisions (almost assuredly negative, because the alternative would open up an equally ugly can of worms) can be made this summer or next, while the kids are backpacking in Mongolia.

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