Suppose you are in a position of authority at a university. Suppose you shut down a political action some students are intending to conduct.
Then suppose they ignore your shut-down and hold it anyway – thus telling you that they are in charge, you are not, and your instructions don’t mean squat to them?
While you’re thinking about that, please read this excerpt from Zach Kessel’s article for National Review, via msn.com:
Columbia University’s School of Social Work (CSSW) shut down an event scheduled for Wednesday afternoon justifying Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel in which the terrorist organization slaughtered and brutalized innocents as a “Palestinian counteroffensive.” Students in the group that planned the event, Columbia Social Workers 4 Palestine, went ahead with the “teach-in and discussion” anyway in a different location on campus.
In a video that has made the rounds on X, student activists can be heard praising Hamas’s massacres, rapes, and abductions of civilians on October 7 as a valiant act of resistance.
Do you immediately expel these students? Suspend them from classes? Put some kind of black mark on their records? SOMETHING???
Or do you “review” what happened and think about whether any punishment at all should be meted out?
Again, from Mr. Kessel’s article:
CCSW issued a message Wednesday indicating that the university is reviewing whether it will discipline the students involved:
A student-led event within the School of Social Work building proceeded without permission, after being canceled. We communicated to the student organizers that this event could not be held at the school because they did not follow protocol. As a result, we prevented access to the classroom the students intended to use. Despite clear direction that the event was not permitted, a group of students moved to host the event in the public lobby of our school. School and University administrators informed the students of the possibility of disciplinary action and urged them to disperse, which they did. The matter is now under review under University procedures.
Oooooohhhhh, under review. I’ll bet the organizers of this “it’s ok to rape mutilate and kill Jews” crowd are just shaking in their boots.
There you have it. Columbia University’s “disciplinary” action, so far, against hamas supporters who have, in a very real sense, told the school they are running it.
Why are the organizers of this event not summarily expelled? Can you come up with a logical answer to that question?
If so, please educate me, because – other than the possibility that some of the people in charge at Columbia University support this group and are tacitly cheering them on – I don’t have a clue.
