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In reply to the discussion: HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY [View all]
Gaugamela
(2,901 posts)You obviously ignored everything I wrote after the first sentence, hoping I would fall for your false framing and limp straw dog implication. I'm sure you would acknowledge that there are pro-Israeli students at Harvard who would speak up in class in support of Israel's war on Gaza. I believe their first amendment rights should be respected, as well as the spirit of open inquiry in any real academic institution.
Would you allow a student to express support for the Third Reich in a Harvard classroom? While I would find it abhorrent and obnoxious, I do not think they should be silenced or censored, unless they're being disruptive. Would you allow a student to support Netanyahu and his administration's stance on Gaza, a number of which administrators have made recent genocidal statements? I would, though again I would find it abhorrent and obnoxious.
Claudine Gay received racist comments and death threats after her testimony in Congress, where she was put on the spot with a gotcha question. We all know from whence such horseshit flings. Many faculty and students rallied to her support.
You might want to be careful about whose water you carry, m'kay?
Here's a recent example of the Israeli administration's rhetoric: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218568637
And here's what the UN says about ethnic cleansing:
The Commission of Experts also stated that the coercive practices used to remove the civilian population can include: murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extrajudicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, severe physical injury to civilians, confinement of civilian population in ghetto areas, forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian population, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, use of civilians as human shields, destruction of property, robbery of personal property, attacks on hospitals, medical personnel, and locations with the Red Cross/Red Crescent emblem, among others.
The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/ethnic-cleansing.shtml#:~:text=Ethnic%20cleansing%20has%20not%20been,independent%20crime%20under%20international%20law.
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