At this moment some of the greatest universities in the world are immobilized by infighting.
At the same time Israel, grieving after an unspeakable atrocity on October 7th and surrounded by people who hate her, and Palestinians in misery impossible to imagine, are both suffering, and will surely keep suffering for the foreseeable future.
Hatred is so far the only victor and has spread across the seas and into our campuses..
Eventually the fighting will stop, most likely temporarily, for there is no coherent answer to the question What next? Will it just be more of the same? We need – I mean all of us - to find ways to keep such brutality from recurring and spreading into our hearts.
Hatred must not triumph.
This is a challenge of the greatest magnitude, yet the greatest universities in the world are so busy with infighting that they are unable to apply their knowledge, brain power and work together to find ways, stepby step, out of this misery.
It is this that outrages me. Must we beg our university leaders to apply their institution’s knowledge and understanding to this challenge?
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If you disagree, please tell me why. If you agree, please share this with those you know at the college or university you care most about.
At the same time Israel, grieving after an unspeakable atrocity on October 7th and surrounded by people who hate her, and Palestinians in misery impossible to imagine, are both suffering, and will surely keep suffering for the foreseeable future.
Hatred is so far the only victor and has spread across the seas and into our campuses..
Eventually the fighting will stop, most likely temporarily, for there is no coherent answer to the question What next? Will it just be more of the same? We need – I mean all of us - to find ways to keep such brutality from recurring and spreading into our hearts.
Hatred must not triumph.
This is a challenge of the greatest magnitude, yet the greatest universities in the world are so busy with infighting that they are unable to apply their knowledge, brain power and work together to find ways, stepby step, out of this misery.
It is this that outrages me. Must we beg our university leaders to apply their institution’s knowledge and understanding to this challenge?
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If you disagree, please tell me why. If you agree, please share this with those you know at the college or university you care most about.