Concerning the Harvard imbroglio, there’s a couple of elements to observe:
- President Trump is, like a dog that wants to be big, trying to establish dominance by ignoring the law and common sense.
- I sure wish a more clear cut issue was chosen.
The issue has to do with anti-semitism, an issue that seems clearcut. However, with Gaza and Israel having decided this is an existential conflict, it’s become a little harder to see this a question of anti-semitism. Thus, students, who are notoriously immune to nuance, staged riots and harassed Jewish students on Harvard and other campuses during the height of the recent conflict in Gaza following the horrendous mass kidnapping and murder of Israel citizens by Hamas, who controls the Gazan government.
Because of the emotional turmoil, that clouds this entire issue of President Trump thinking he has any right to interfere in Harvard affairs, even if anti-semitism is involved.
And that’s unfortunate. We need separate debates over the actions of the students and the actions of the President and how they interfere with all-important academic freedoms. The corruption of the left does not help, either.
