Students on a number of campuses across the country have supported the actions by Hamas or, on the other side, the bombing of Gaza by Israel. Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, and Donald Trump have all declared that students issuing statement on behalf of Hamas should be kicked out of the country, and schools that didn’t halt this kind of speech should be denied funding. Notice that the students have not been destroying property or physically attacking anyone. They may be saying reprehensible things, but they are speaking.
Vivek Ramaswamy, of all people, got it right. He said, “Colleges are spaces for students to experiment with ideas & sometimes kids join clubs that endorse boneheadedly wrong ideas.”
See Maggie Astor, “Crackdown Sought on Anti-Israel Speech,” New York Times, (Oct. 26, 2023), p. A15.
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