Harvard Faculty and Law Students Hold Silent Anti-Israel Protests in Campus Libraries
“at the campus Widener Library to protest the students disciplined for doing the same a month before”
Have you noticed that these people never seem to protest Hamas? Israel is always the bad guy.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard faculty, law students hold silent anti-Israel protests in campus libraries
This past Wednesday, approximately two dozen Harvard faculty held a silent “study-in” protest at the campus Widener Library to protest the students disciplined for doing the same a month before.
That student “study-in” got participants a two-week ban from the library due to violating “guidelines on free expression and library use,” according to The Crimson.
Guards on the premises asked to check faculty members’ IDs upon entering the library, and at least 10 tenured professors had sent a letter to library officials asking if “the scholarly resources we need to do our jobs” would be denied them for engaging in the silent demonstration.
Faculty wore black scarves and “read texts on dissent, bureaucracy, and censorship” such as George Orwell’s “1984,” according to the report.
They also read from the University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities which Harvard had used to discipline the previous student activists.
Students involved with the “unrecognized” student group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, donned in keffiyehs, sat at an adjacent table to the faculty.
Law School professor Andrew Crespo told The Crimson he gets that Harvard “has every interest in making sure that its libraries are quiet places,” but doesn’t believe “you can describe sitting quietly at a table reading a book as disruptive in a library.”
The following day, Harvard Law students held their own “study-in” at the Langdell Library where they displayed messages on the back of their laptops such as “Israel is burning people alive” and “Israel bombed a hospital, again.”
Participants at this (silent) protest also handed out flyers which claimed that security checking students’ IDs “is an intimidation tactic from the school to scare you out of your activism for Palestine,” and that “a silent study-in is not in violation of any existing university policy.”
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the racist leftists striking out again at their jewwwwish superiors
Bs. If you spend more than 30 seconds around this generation, you will know they are incapable of silence for even that long unless they just stay in their phones the whole time. At that point, there’s zero difference between them and every other gen useless student.
If they were quiet and not disruptive, what is the problem?
I can understand if the library were overwhelmed with quiet protesters that authorities might want to screen entrants to try sorting out serious studiers from protesters. I also think that that would be a hard decision/distinction to make unless the protesters self-identify.
I vigorously support Israel and Jewish students’ right to exist or study at any university that admitted them. And if it were up to me pro-Hamas protesters couldn’t do so on campuses or public property. But there’s that pesky First Amendment.
Seriously, what am I missing?