I love how this article worries about the impact on campus free speech. Where was that concern over the last decade as countless conservatives were shouted down on campus?
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
‘We Don’t Need to be Genteel’Last October a handful of George Washington University students projected slogans, including “Glory to Our Martyrs,” onto a university library named after Jewish patrons. The students said the phrase was meant to honor Palestinians killed by Israel, according to the student newspaper. But many Jewish observers read it as celebrating Hamas’s October 7 massacre.To Elizabeth Rand, the George Washington “laser light show,” as she calls it, was more proof that antisemitism is ascendant at America’s colleges. Two days later, she started a private Facebook group for people who wanted to do something about it. Over the past six months, members of Mothers Against College Antisemitism, or MACA, have filled administrators’ inboxes and voicemails with their concerns. They’ve advocated for documentary showings to be canceled, for divestment resolutions to be rejected, and for colleges to remove antiwar encampments that have popped up across the country.The group, which now has nearly 60,000 members, celebrates “wins” for the broader movement each week, like a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter getting placed on probation or a university investigating the removal of Israeli flags as a possible hate crime.MACA sees its mission as protecting Jewish students from bigotry that their own colleges will not or are slow to combat. But its detractors argue that MACA sometimes unfairly targets professors or attempts to trample on legitimate speech. Those critics are suspicious of an advocacy organization outside the university attempting to influence what goes on inside it.Rand dismisses the notion that MACA should not have a say. “We’re consumers,” she told me in an interview. “If I’m giving you $80,000 a year, you’d better behave.”
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