Former Obama Official: Colleges Must 'Allow Space' for Anti-Semitic Rallies

And on CNN News Central that afternoon, Harvard professor and former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem demanded that universities like hers “allow space” for those mini-Nuremberg rallies.

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“And I'm pretty clear about this,” Kayyem declared. She demanded that schools “allow space for students to protest” in favor of Hamas. Essentially her defense of the students was ‘kid will be kids.’ “This should not be a shock to anyone with teenagers or young, young adult children. They have strong feelings and they’re passionate,” she argued.

Coddling the anti-Semites, Kayyem said they needed to be given “off ramps” before the schools cracked down on any violent rhetoric or other misconduct. As if the students didn’t agree to a Student Code of Conduct when they joined the school, she huffed: “You've got to give students rules about what they are and are not allowed to do. And maybe this happened at USC, but they have to be clear about, ‘Yes, you can protest. No, you can't block a building and this is what's going to happen if you block the building.’”

Ed Morrissey

Would Kayyem be as amenable to a Blue Lives Matter protest on campus? 

Besides, the issue isn't whether people can demonstrate for political positions, even abhorrent positions such as the pro-Hamas messages coming out of Academia. They aren't just protesting, but threatening and intimidating Jewish students and faculty, obstructing operations, and seizing control of campus facilities. That's not a protest; those are a series of criminal acts, and should be addressed as such. 

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