Meanwhile Back at the Ivy League ...

Very recently, masked activists (thugs, really) burst into Columbia

University's main library, ejected students, physically attacked 

dissenters, committed vandalism, and engaged in general mayhem.

At least 78 of these hoodlums were arrested, 65 students received

interim suspensions, and another 33 individuals, how many of which

were students was unclear, were barred from the campus.

Columbia's acting president, Claire Shipman, called the police; 

something liberal college and university presidents at liberal

schools haven't been known to do when confronted by such 

situations. After viewing the carnage, Shipman stated "I saw

it defaced and damaged in disturbing ways and with disturbing 

slogans." Congratulations are to be given to Acting President 

Shipman for her exhibiting such resolve. Let's hope that her

courage catches on with other heads of institutions of higher learning. 

Harvard will be rocky soil upon which the seeds of this courage 

displayed at Columbia will fall. Harvard has deep-running anti-

Israel and Jewish bias; an internal investigation, no less, discovered

as much. Its activist enclave does not regard Israel so much as a 

sovereign state but as a boil on the skin of the earth which must be 

lanced. Israeli and American Jewish students are routinely harassed,

often to the point of these students not being able to attend class.

Harvard's administration has done almost nothing to help them.

These pro-Palestinian students and others have dominated classrooms

and classes, clubs and other extracurriculars, and campus public spaces

with "discussions" about the Palestinian cause. Harvard's bowing and

scraping at the altar of "inclusivity" backs this to the hilt, the safety

and emotional well-being of Jewish students and Jewish faculty

members be damned. 

The war for academic freedom will be fought in many universities,

fought on a campus-to-campus basis from without and from within.

Some colleges and universities will stand up to and ultimately defeat 

these ratbags, while other institutions will cower and knuckle under

to them. It's too early in the game to assess the score and how it will 

end, so we must wait and see who will prevail.

MEM