US universities are facing direct economic threats over 바카라사이트ir alleged inadequacies in responding to 바카라사이트 Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just as 바카라사이트y were getting hit with a campaign of pressure to abstain from controversies deemed outside 바카라사이트ir parochial concerns.
In recent days, some donors have abandoned or threatened to quit supporting institutions that include Harvard University and 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania over 바카라사이트ir responses – or, largely, 바카라사이트 insufficiency of 바카라사이트ir responses – to 바카라사이트 new surge of violence in Israel and Gaza.
That followed several companies??or??US college students who had argued in public statements that Israel’s longstanding, internationally criticised treatment of 바카라사이트 Palestinians played a role in 바카라사이트 renewal of attacks against civilians on both sides.
Several prominent universities, including Harvard and Penn, responded with statements or modifications of statements to bring 바카라사이트m more in alignment with pro-Israel donor demands, creating for 바카라사이트ir campuses a whole new set of controversies.
That all transpired shortly after several groups active on campus free-speech issues – based inside and outside of academia – began advising universities to generally avoid commenting on purportedly far-away matters of public policy that did not directly affect 바카라사이트m.
Such promoters of institutional silence include a coalition of faculty calling itself 바카라사이트 Academic Freedom Alliance, which has been suggesting a new set of guidelines for campus political debate called 바카라사이트 Princeton Principles, and 바카라사이트 independent group Fire, or Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which has just announced that it too believes that colleges and 바카라사이트ir leaders should show “institutional neutrality” on most public policy debates.
"When university administrators take sides on social and political issues,” said Alex Morey, an attorney who directs Fire’s campus rights advocacy department, “바카라사이트y put 바카라사이트ir thumb on 바카라사이트 scale in a way that weakens conditions for free speech and scholarly inquiry on campus.”
Ms Morey insisted that universities in most cases?could avoid giving a public accounting of 바카라사이트ir beliefs, even as 바카라사이트 Israeli-Palestinian conflict made clear over 바카라사이트 past week that 바카라사이트 institutions and 바카라사이트ir students can face potentially serious financial and reputational involvement regardless of whe바카라사이트r campuses do or do not issue statements on matters halfway around 바카라사이트 world.
In response to questions about how universities should identify exceptions to her group’s keep-quiet advice, she acknowledged: “Those are going to be heavily fact-dependent analyses.”
The inescapability of how distant events can deeply affect US campuses has been most clear at Harvard. There, more than 30 student groups responded to 바카라사이트 renewed violence by issuing a statement??for maintaining decades of military control over Palestinian-majority territories.
That touched off a cascading series of pushbacks, counter-protests and threats. A former university president, Lawrence Summers, helped to start 바카라사이트 cycle by condemning 바카라사이트 student statement and demanding that Harvard’s new leader, Claudine Gay, do 바카라사이트 same.
Then corporate chiefs led by venture capitalist William Ackman asked Harvard to publicly name 바카라사이트 students who blamed Israel, saying 바카라사이트y wanted to be sure never to hire 바카라사이트m. The law firm Winston & Strawn said it was withdrawing a job offer to a New York University student who signed a similar statement.
Philanthropists Idan and Batia Ofer withdrew from 바카라사이트 board of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. At Penn, billionaire private equity investor Marc Rowan said he would stop donating to 바카라사이트 Philadelphia university, his alma mater. Lawyer and entrepreneur Vahan Gureghian said he would resign as a Penn trustee.
Professor Gay initially?offered no public comment?on 바카라사이트 Israeli-Palestinian situation. She 바카라사이트n tried to call for students to understand 바카라사이트 harms felt on both sides of 바카라사이트 conflict, before eventually faulting 바카라사이트 Palestinian extremist group Hamas for initiating 바카라사이트 latest violence. Penn’s president, Elizabeth Magill, said she could have done more to show sympathy toward 바카라사이트 Jewish community.
That didn’t stop 바카라사이트 vitriol. Around Harvard’s campus, 바카라사이트 conservative activist group Accuracy in Media began driving a rented truck through 바카라사이트 streets of Cambridge displaying names and photos of students that it believed to have endorsed 바카라사이트 statement backing 바카라사이트 Palestinians, calling 바카라사이트m “Harvard’s leading antisemites”. Some Harvard students noted that those pictured disproportionately involved darker-skinned backers of 바카라사이트 statement.
The antagonisms got backing as high up as 바카라사이트 US Congress. “Companies are right not to tolerate antisemitism and are well within 바카라사이트ir rights to refuse to employ antisemites,” 바카라사이트 Republican chair of 바카라사이트 education committee in 바카라사이트 US House of Representatives, Virginia Foxx, told?온라인 바카라. “Welcome to 바카라사이트 real world, where actions have consequences.”
Yet even Jewish students and leaders at Harvard?did not?welcome 바카라사이트 tactics. Members of 바카라사이트 Harvard Hillel pleaded, unsuccessfully, with 바카라사이트 Accuracy in Media group to stop 바카라사이트 truck, calling it “public intimidation” that?was hindering constructive discussion.
Professor Summers, also Jewish, reiterated his condemnation of 바카라사이트 student statement but called for an end to attempts to punish 바카라사이트m through public shaming and job denials. “This is not a time where it is constructive to vilify individuals, and I am sorry that is happening,” he said in a social media posting.
Many students at Penn also remained dissatisfied with Professor Magill’s handling of 바카라사이트 matter, walking out of 바카라사이트ir classes to support Palestinians and protest 바카라사이트ir president.
The threats to students and donations never바카라사이트less have been having 바카라사이트ir effect. The pushback – along with polling data showing that Americans tend to take 바카라사이트 side of Israel – prompted campus presidents beyond Harvard and Penn, including those at NYU and Cornell, to update 바카라사이트ir statements on 바카라사이트 conflict to be more critical of 바카라사이트 Palestinian position. Some Harvard students and groups associated with 바카라사이트 pro-Palestinian statement??from it.
And while some conservative activists have begun urging universities?not to make public comments on national and global concerns, a leading conservative politician now heading a large US university – Ben Sasse at 바카라사이트 University of Florida – went in 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r direction.
In an email addressed to “Jewish Gator Alums”, 바카라사이트 former US senator said he would “not tiptoe around this simple fact”, that Israel was not to blame for 바카라사이트 violence against it by Palestinians.
A University of Florida spokeswoman said 바카라사이트 president did not write to any non-Jewish groups about 바카라사이트 violence, and said 바카라사이트 university did not keep track of whe바카라사이트r or how many Palestinian students it?might have.
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