I recommend the following substack by Daniel Gordis, where he posts an English translation of comments on the protests by an Israeli Ph.D student at Stanford. It's worth reading in full. Here is a key paragraph:
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If university presidents would stop trembling in their own shadows, they could tell their students that they have a right to …
I recommend the following substack by Daniel Gordis, where he posts an English translation of comments on the protests by an Israeli Ph.D student at Stanford. It's worth reading in full. Here is a key paragraph:
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If university presidents would stop trembling in their own shadows, they could tell their students that they have a right to express stupid views, but that shouting them out won’t make them any more correct. Lecturers cannot silence their students, but they can emphasize that anyone who expresses uninformed or unfounded positions with great confidence is an educational failure. An Israeli—as I discovered—cannot really convince his American counterpart that Israel is not committing genocide, even if there is not even a shred of evidence to support the argument that what is happening in Gaza is genocide. But if the president of the university were to look at his students and express sincere disappointment when they express such a preposterous position, something in a significant portion of those students might shift.
I recommend the following substack by Daniel Gordis, where he posts an English translation of comments on the protests by an Israeli Ph.D student at Stanford. It's worth reading in full. Here is a key paragraph:
"""
If university presidents would stop trembling in their own shadows, they could tell their students that they have a right to express stupid views, but that shouting them out won’t make them any more correct. Lecturers cannot silence their students, but they can emphasize that anyone who expresses uninformed or unfounded positions with great confidence is an educational failure. An Israeli—as I discovered—cannot really convince his American counterpart that Israel is not committing genocide, even if there is not even a shred of evidence to support the argument that what is happening in Gaza is genocide. But if the president of the university were to look at his students and express sincere disappointment when they express such a preposterous position, something in a significant portion of those students might shift.
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https://substack.com/inbox/post/144195564