This is one in a series of articles and essays on myriad topics related to Israel that will run weekly as we approach the Jewish state’s 60th anniversary on Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day, in May.
Noam Chomsky was interviewed in the summer 2004 issue of Heeb magazine:
Part of the reason these mobs have been able to riot illegally is because of the threat of one word: Islamophobia.
The extreme tactics of those creating these encampments and related protests are unacceptable at every level.
You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what’s right.
The Columbia administrators have clearly lost control. Their cowardice and inability to act has ceded the campus to the antisemitic mobs, who delight in making Jewish students feel unwelcome and unsafe.
What we are seeing at Yale and other so-called “elite” or Ivy League universities has brought shame to American society.
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