Ira Stoll, I have a question of a different sort here -- about the 30 plus student groups issuing their statement on October 7 blaming all the violence on Israel. I have long wondered about that. How was it that all those groups got together on the wording of the statement and signed off on it in that time frame? I have a hard time imagining it all took place only as or immediately after the massacre had begun and even as it was still unfolding. I for one suspect the groups had advanced knowledge of it AHEAD of time. I know that sounds bonkers and malevolent. But we know from where a lot of funding for the Hamas-loving demonstrations is coming. I wonder if any effort has been made to dig into how these groups were mobilized to issue that statement in that incredibly short time
By the way, I get the sense that Harvard's leadership is embedded in a very dense and complex network of personal and institutional powers, such that they cannot even imagine going out and hiring some puny unheard of law firm that might advise them with the sort of hard-nosed objectivity they so desperately need.
Ira Stoll, I have a question of a different sort here -- about the 30 plus student groups issuing their statement on October 7 blaming all the violence on Israel. I have long wondered about that. How was it that all those groups got together on the wording of the statement and signed off on it in that time frame? I have a hard time imagining it all took place only as or immediately after the massacre had begun and even as it was still unfolding. I for one suspect the groups had advanced knowledge of it AHEAD of time. I know that sounds bonkers and malevolent. But we know from where a lot of funding for the Hamas-loving demonstrations is coming. I wonder if any effort has been made to dig into how these groups were mobilized to issue that statement in that incredibly short time
Very interesting….
By the way, I get the sense that Harvard's leadership is embedded in a very dense and complex network of personal and institutional powers, such that they cannot even imagine going out and hiring some puny unheard of law firm that might advise them with the sort of hard-nosed objectivity they so desperately need.
The Harvard defense lawyers echo the Israeli Supreme Court in their use of the word "unreasonable" to make their case. Oh so clever.