What we find particularly shameful is that its president, Elizabeth Bradley, sought to quiet several concerned alumni with private messages of empathy that were dramatically different in tone from her public pronouncements. Apparently, Vassar has one message for its pro-Israel alumni and another for the wider Vassar community.
The encampment was led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group with a long, inglorious history at Vassar, which includes posting a Nazi cartoon on social media and launching BDS campaigns on the eve of significant Jewish holidays. Not only did these students violate college assembly rules by loud drum banging and calls for the eradication of Israel (among other chants), they invited outside agitators to join and were seen on video in a mob hounding Bradley.
In a May 2 ”Campus Update,” Bradley issued a community-wide message acknowledging the violations but signaling that she would cave to the students’ demands. And cave she did, in a May 4 update that accepted much of SJP’s anti-Israel agenda, failing even to mention (much less empathize with) the suffering that many Jews, including Vassar students, experienced in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks.
(via Legal Insurrection)
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