BARI WEISS – A Thought Experiment
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A quick thought experiment: imagine if large numbers of students and professors had marched through the campus of Penn over the past two months saying that all black people should go back to Africa and whoever remains should be subjected to genocide. Should the president of Penn defend those people merely as exercising their rights to free speech?
I think that it would be monstrous to do so.
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It doesn’t mean that students wouldn’t have the legal right to scream for a violent uprising against Jews or anyone else. Indeed, as the good lawyers at white-shoe law firm WilmerHale clearly pointed out to Magill and the other presidents who appeared before Congress, legally, of course they do. But the job of a university president is not merely to highlight basic constitutional rights. It’s also to form and lead a community with a singular aim: the pursuit of truth.
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One Final Thought
Who is more responsible for civilian deaths in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces pursuing HAMAS leaders, or the Terrorists hiding among the civilians, using them as shields ???
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A few of the leaders of HAMAS will be caught and brought to trial. Should using civilians as shields not be treated as a War Crime ???
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NOTE: It is possible that this question has already been answered and that some U.N. documents do describe it as a War Crime.
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