The leadership of Oak Park Public Library is under fire from former staff and community members over their handling of an event celebrating Palestinian culture and the elimination of two community engagement staff positions.
Tensions are high at Oak Park and River Forest High School, reflecting global strife over the war in Gaza, as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students and parents report unfair treatment, bullying, harassment and feeling unsafe at school.The school, for example, has received 16 formal complaints since Oct. 7, but eight were anonymous complaints and therefore not investigated, officials said. Five complaints were determined to have already been dealt with. Of the three remaining complaints that were investigated, two alleged antisemitism and one alleged harassment of the school’s Middle East and North African student group. Those, a spokesperson said, were followed up in a manner that “focused on taking an educational approach preserving the dignity of all involved and ensuring a safe learning environment.”The situation, however, escalated at last week’s school board meeting after one parent called for the firing of one teacher and the removal from advisory posts of two others amid
Just when it seems that The New York Times might finally set aside, at least for the moment, its unrelenting.
Just to pick up on the point of disparity in casualty numbers, and the international outcry by Hamas supporters for proportionality, the
Law of Armed Conflict and the
US Army’s Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Land Warfareboth make clear that “proportionality does not require equivalence.”
When you are trying to win a war against an aggressive enemy aiming to kill those you are charged with protecting, you can (and must) inflict as much pain and damage as possible on that enemy to get them to stop.