How could American university students celebrate, and many university presidents equivocate or just stay silent, in response to the brutal Hamas attack?
The response of American college and university campuses to the mass murder, burning, raping and abducting of Israelis by Hamas has left many of us with a burning questions: how? The celebration of Hamas’ atrocities by students and faculty seems beyond comprehension. University administrators’ non-judgmentalism and lack of moral clarity in response to this savagery seems not just irresponsible, but reprehensible.
These currents have led us to the place where the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement has sought to undermine Israel, declaring it an 'apartheid state.' We are seeing the creation of Jew-free zones on university campuses. And all this was before Oct. 7! But it gives us some insight into why students were calling the Hamas assassins 'resistance fighters' who are 'taking back their land from the colonizers,' 'from the river to the sea.
These are solutions based on my experience as a university president and now university chancellor. Yours may differ, but we all must give serious thought to how we fix what is obviously broken in higher education. It has been said that what is taught in colleges today will be played out on the streets tomorrow. Or as historian Victor David Hanson puts it, the time from a crazy idea in the faculty lounge to its emergence in popular culture is only five years.
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