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The Wesleyan President and administration rightly are seen as giving in to extortion in order to preserve peace at reunions and commencement. In so doing, they have dangled the possibility of the university entering into some form of divestment or academic boycott of Israel in front of students .... Even if Wesleyan ultimately rejects these measures, it has done tremendous damage.

"The presidential statement reflects some variation on Stockholm Syndrome, lauding students assisted by faculty who took the campus hostage with bullhorns in study areas, marches including genocidal chants directed at Israeli Jews, vandalism of university property, and even putting Pollack on mock trial for complicity in genocide The encampment was only the final act in a months-long campus siege.