Society has been tolerant, even accepting, of many of the actions and priorities of the far left on college campuses.
Society has been tolerant, even accepting, of many of the actions and priorities of the far left on college campuses. The campus socialists have been, if not at the forefront, highly supportive of fundamental changes this century: the Me-Too Movement, the Black Lives Matter movement and the burgeoning equal rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals. As Dr. MLK, Jr. noted, the arc of moral just has been long, but it has been bending toward justice.
Some of the responses from some members of this community after the attack by Hamas on Israel, to many, did exactly the opposite. seemingly excusing the brutal killings. A statement was put out by two dozen Harvard groups that the Israel regime “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” At George Washington University, a group of students projected the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” on the outside wall of the Gelman Library, which is well-known to be a call for the destruction of Israel, and “Glory to the Martyrs,” At the University of Virginia, the chapter of students for Justice in Palestine stated that it “unequivocally supports Palestinian liberation and the right of colonized people everywhere to resist the occupation of their land by whatever means they deem necessary.
