Princeton Still Hasn’t Punished Students Who Hurled Insults at Israeli Official
“The protest was organized by Princeton’s chapter of the anti-Israel student group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).”
This happened back in April and nothing has been done yet?
Campus Reform reports:
Princeton refuses to punish masked students who hurled slurs at Jews
Princeton University has yet to punish anti-Israel demonstrators for disrupting an April event at the school’s campus that featured a former Israeli politician.
At the April 7 protest, around 250 protesters called former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett a “war criminal,” referred to Jewish students as “inbreds,” and demanded they return to Europe, as reported by Jewish News Syndicate. The protest was organized by Princeton’s chapter of the anti-Israel student group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Protesters also displayed images of triangles, adopting a symbol used by Hamas during the war in Gaza, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Yet, no students have been punished in connection with the protest, partly since they were wearing masks and could not be identified, The Daily Wire reported. The university administration has not implemented a prohibition on face coverings.
According to the nonprofit organization, Princetonians for Free Speech, the university has delayed publishing information about its investigation into the incident.
“We searched carefully and could find no public announcement, no press release, nor anything on the University’s website about the investigation’s results. The only mention of it we can find anywhere is a short story in the Princeton Alumni Weekly on May 21,” the group explained on June 4. “Is Princeton trying to hide this report and, with the end of the school year, duck the entire issue?”
Campus Reform has reported about persistent anti-Israel rhetoric at Princeton University. In December for instance, the school’s SJP group advocated for divestment from Israel, accusing the Jewish state of perpetrating human rights abuses.
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“Hurling insults,” as opposed to hurling frozen water bottles and concrete blocks, seems to be protected First Amended speech.
But free speech does not entitle people to disrupt another group’s previously-scheduled event which it had permission to hold. If the anti-Israel troglodytes had simply quietly stood in the room with their signs, there wouldn’t have been a problem, but they decided that they weren’t going to allow the speaker to be heard. In other words, they denied the right of free speech to others. Princeton (full disclosure: I’m an alumna, class of 1976) could and should have outlawed the SJP and issued a ban on masks, but it did neither, letting the heckler’s veto have a win.
princeton explained:
we feel that the students have already been punished enough by having their land stolen and their babies killed and their inability to totally wipe israel off the face of the earth
so we are not biased as we do collect the pro israelis money and if they cant get to class…thats on them