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Covering the campus wars over Israel, the “paper of record” once again misses the point. In a New York Times piece devoted to how pro and anti-Israel activism affects campus free speech and students’ lives, writer John Leland avoids any reference to the myriad examples of ostracism recently faced by pro-Israel students.
What Zoom Does to Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Free Speech
As battles over Israel and the Palestinian territories have migrated online, technology has scrambled the debate.
Clashes erupted in 2018 at a student celebration of Israel in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.Credit.Mack DeGeurin
Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Feb. 10, 2021
Leila Khaled is a two-time hijacker, a member of a Palestinian group on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. So it came as a shock to Javier Cohen, a senior at New York University, to find her speaking on an N.Y.U. webinar last semester.
In the video, Ms. Khaled calls Israel an “apartheid state” practicing terrorism against Palestinians and vows to pursue “all means of struggle, including armed struggle” against it.