Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated

‘It’s hard to believe that the hearings genuinely seek to protect Jewish students when its grandstanding inquisitors include Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York who has trafficked in white nationalist conspiracy theories’‘It’s hard to believe that the hearings genuinely seek to protect Jewish students when its grandstanding inquisitors include Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York who has trafficked in white nationalist conspiracy theories’appeared...

It’s hard to believe that the hearings genuinely seek to protect Jewish students when its grandstanding inquisitors include Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York who has trafficked in, and Representative Rick Allen, a Republican from Georgia, who quoted Bible verses as a source for dictating policy at a religiously diverse, secular university. The hearings’ purpose, rather, is to attack universities as sites of learning and critical thinking.

Today, as student protests against Israel’s actions have grown in size and fervor, hawkish defenders of Israel have intensified efforts to quash them, often asserting, speciously, that protest rhetoric – even the mere sight of a keffiyeh – makes Jewish students unsafe. They then go further to claim that, therefore, Jews are being targeted and threatened.

President Shafik did not have to align herself with the anti-intellectual and anti-democratic bigotry of the questioners or accede to their cynical weaponization of antisemitism. This means that students might feel unsettled when their world views differ from their peers’ or when what they discuss in class – or hear on campus – challenges their beliefs. University education involves learning to engage disagreement and even confrontation, and to contest ideas rather than seek to suppress them.

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