General Discussion

Just because they can be trotted out doesn't mean their opinion is dispositive. I'd also argue people in academia have long had a vested interest in going along with the radical Left's anti-Israel sentiments that have saturated many of these places for decades. Maybe a little bit of career incentive there. That said.

The Big Book of Minorities Whose Opinion I Like is always an unfortunate one to pull off the shelf.

And, of course, it's based on a towering strawman - that mere pro-Palestinian sentiment is considered antisemitic. It's not. It's all the rest that frequently accompanies it. The destruction of Israel, the harassment of Jews around the world, the October 7th denialism, the celebrations, the cynical use of genocide to confound the issue, the constant repetition and spreading of Hamas propaganda, lately the apologias for Iran, and the silence in the face of it as the Giant Bow of Shittiness to tie it all up.

Being for a two-state solution and anti-Netanyahu without playing jacks in the Dumpster Fire of Global Antisemitism is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Which really makes one wonder why people repeatedly find it so difficult to manage.

Almost as if they don't want to manage it.

But that's none of my business.