Can we have a moment where someone says the emperor has no clothes? How will such students actually practice law? I just don’t understand.

‘Unlike chants of “Abolish the police,” chants about expelling “Zionist” students from “liberated zone” invites political scrutiny, donor revolts and lawsuits. Democratic politicians can’t wave all this away as youthful exuberance.’ ⁦Megan McArdle⁩ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

'The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim' - Gustave Le Bon.

Loose lips sink ships.

Exactly: “Administrators have spent much of the recent past recruiting social-justice-minded students and faculty to their campuses under the implicit, and often explicit, promise that activism is not just welcome but encouraged. Now the leaders of those universities are shocked

“We even find our spouses via networks. 70 percent of people marry a friend of a friend” Nicholas A. Christakis and this is how my trip in networks begun! So why not use networks for understanding transitions? #nordicRSA #NORSA Regional Studies Association Høgskulen på Vestlandet

“This was a graduate student labor union support for Palestine encampment protest. MIT requires all graduate students, like myself, to join this union, which supports BDS and (apparently) terrorist groups. Will Sussman recently sued the MIT Grad Student Union.”

The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism has much to commend it. I've long used it myself.

But as its drafter, Ken Stern, has argued, it's a dangerous tool if used as a legal mechanism for regulating speech.

That's just what the US House proposes to do, in a fit of moral panic.

“If a student group had put up posters that included a racist caricature of a Black dean or played on hateful tropes about Asian American or LGBTQ people, the school would have erupted—and understandably so. But a plainly anti-Semitic poster….” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

4/ If enacted, the Antisemitism Awareness Act will chill core political speech about the Israel/Palestine conflict on our nation’s campuses — the places where difficult conversations and debates are supposed to flourish.

I just retweeted three tweets from this thread but the whole thread has insights and data worth attending to.

I highlight that one of the core sources of confusion, for students and university administrators alike, is that many -- especially at elite schools -- have been brought up to think that civil disobedience should be risk free, consequence free and, in fact, be opportunity

One of those highly contested terms is 'safety.' Many of the measures universities are engaging in to crack down on protests are justified in the name of 'safety' -- especially the safety of Jewish students.

However, it's important to understand what 'safety' means here. There

I then emphasized that the meaning of many terms and slogans, 'intifada,' 'from the river to the sea,' and even the meaning of the term 'antisemitism' are often unclear and hotly contested, with people often talking past one-another.

I highlighted a viral (and to my mind,

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House passes antisemitism bill as Johnson highlights campus protests

Orgs like ⁦FIRE⁩ and others have long observed that free speech protects unpopular views and that demanding power to squelch speech might come back to bite those pushing it cnn.com/2024/05/01/pol…

I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and