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Kate Schlesinger's avatar

Sorry, but did Tim just "both sides" one professor making a historical comparison (and, uh, maybe study Germany in the late 20s and early 30s before dismissing the comparison) with students forming human chains to prevent Jewish kids from moving throughout campus and hurling antisemitic slurs, screaming "bomb Tel Aviv" and "Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets, too" and "Go back to Poland," with signs posted referring to the world's only Jewish state as "a nation of pigs"?

I don't support everything Shai Davidai has said or done, but he's not the reason the university has shut down. Their refusal to protect their Jewish students from the tsunami of antisemitism on campus is. A little moral clarity, please.

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Tim Miller's avatar

I’m sorry this is bad as I’ve covered both the past two days but it’s not in any way akin to a “pogrom”. Nor were the Georgia election laws Jim Crow. And it would be inappropriate for me to say the Florida don’t say gay bills were like aids. Shai has been treated poorly by the school and the protests have disgusting rhetoric but he is not helping by escalating this into nazi germany.

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Kate Schlesinger's avatar

Completely agree that he's not helping. But you used an intentional "both sides" framing that I didn't think was appropriate in this case as one side is obviously doing more to escalate. It seems to me that the anti-Israel protesters have the ability to de-escalate in a way that the Jews don't. Shai Davidai being more circumspect with his rhetoric won't actually change the intolerable situation on the ground.

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