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 hmmmmm
Yes, who can forget that time Russia caused an excess of 30,000 civilian casualties by leveling a city with Absolut. Our collective failure to hold Pernod Ricard to account for its role in that will haunt us for years to come.