Robert Reich on Columbia U [View all]

[Nanjeanne]

The most important thing I teach my students
And why Columbia’s faculty should issue a vote of no confidence in its president, Nemat Shafik

Apparently, Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, does not share my view. Last week she prostrated herself before House Republicans, promising that she would discipline professors and students for protesting the ongoing slaughter in Gaza in which some 34,000 people have died, most of them women and children.

The following day she summoned the New York City Police Department to arrest more than 100 students who were engaging in a peaceful protest against it.

Can we be clear about a few things? Protesting this slaughter is not expressing antisemitism. It is not engaging in hate speech. It is not endangering Jewish students. It is doing what should be done on a college campus — taking a stand against a perceived wrong, at least provoking discussion and debate.

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