A story by Campus Reform reports the protesters held a demonstration Oct. 28 to protest the punishment of 13 people who were arrested during the summer after occupying the president’s office.
Marie Fischer, of Herut North America, tells AFN defending the law-breaking protesters proves they are nothing but law-breaking anarchists.
“Protesting is fine until you break the law, she says. “You're not allowed into various offices. Basically, it's trespassing, which is against the law."
In a closer look at the campus protests, a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed says the problem of anti-Semitism begins in the classrooms. In the article, author Dara Horn says Harvard University, for example, ignored a suggestion to review its courses and instruction for challenging academic rigor.
Sophia Witt, of Students Supporting Israel, tells AFN she has been disappointed in Harvard’s failure to address anti-Semitism. Like the op-ed's conclusion, she says the real failure comes from its own classes and from students who are ignorant.
“I mean, just ask these students which river when they're chanting ‘from the river to the sea.’ They can't answer that,” she says. “I don't think that they actually know what they're talking about."
During the October protest at Stanford, the students held a “people’s tribunal” that found school administrators guilty of “genocide,” according to the CR story.
A citizen-led trial closely mirrors the fake trials held by rabid Communists in the Soviet Union and in China. In those show trials, fellow citizens were condemned as counter-revolutionaries who were guilty of made-up crimes against the state.
Fischer says the students might not realize what a divestment from Israel would include considering its groundbreaking efforts in technology and medicine.
“Are they willing to get rid of their computers due to Intel? Are they willing to get rid of their phones? Are they willing to forego medical procedures that were discovered in Israel?" she asks.
