What shocked many people about the student letter was its heartlessness. Even as the bodies were being counted, the signers told us not to blame the killers but to redirect our gaze, and fix all responsibility on Israel. The Chronicle of Higher Education
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7.10.24
7 ottobre, un anno dal pogrom
This is a story of two political cultures. One of them shapes the
attitudes that dominate political discussion in American colleges. The
other culture persists among a broad and reasonably well-informed public
outside colleges and their government and philanthropic tributaries.
When, in the academic year 2023-24, the two cultures faced each other
with expressions of mutual dismay, the moment had been coming for a long
time. On October 7, 2023, scores of Hamas fighters broke through the
boundaries of Gaza, killed around 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped more than
200 others: the worst terror attack in Israel’s history. Within hours,
34 student groups at Harvard University had circulated a public letter
affirming that “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the
Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” (The
word “unfolding” covered the violence of the past, the present, and the
future.) “Today’s events,” the letter went on to say, “did not occur in a
vacuum,” and it added: “The apartheid regime [of Israel] is the only
one to blame.” The signers concluded by urging solidarity with the
Palestinian suffering which was sure to follow once the Israeli
retaliation in Gaza had commenced.
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