Same here, if they let a group of students disrupt the operations of the university and get what they want, that will just lead to any disgruntled group of idiots taking over buildings whenever they want something. A society cannot function on the basis of giving anyone who can disrupt the society anything they want, because it is so easy to disrupt a society that you quickly end up with groups that (in the aggregate) demand more than 100% of available resources.

These students broadcast their crimes on the web. It isn't as though they can't be identified. They should be expelled and arrested for trespassing.

BTW, this has nothing to do with their message. I would feel the same way if a bunch of Jewish students were occupying that university building.

Speak, leaflet, posters, whatever you want that falls under free speech. I support the right of the National Lawyers Guild to hand their blood libel posters in their offices and on public bulletin boards. I would support their right to hand out swastika fliers. But what these students are doing is not exercising their right to free speech, it is disrupting other people's rights to use the university facilities they pay for.

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Civil disobedience has no place where there is free expression.

Our society is functioning poorly now, and its dysfunction is accelerating. Free expression may still be available to Americans, but it has no power to stop our collective immoral violence. Free expression is impotent, and has very little value to individuals or groups without being backed up with action that forces establishmentarians to acknowledge it. Without the occupation of one floor of one building there is no publicity, no confrontation with authority, no possible change to policy. Free expression in America is widely touted as something especially democratic, but it is only considered that way because it is meaningless when confronted with the power of accumulated wealth.

These students broadcast their crimes on the web. It isn't as though they can't be identified. They should be expelled and arrested for trespassing.

BTW, this has nothing to do with their message. I would feel the same way if a bunch of Jewish students were occupying that university building.

Lemme get this straight: If a bunch of Jewish students occupy a university building it's "crime", but when a bunch of Jewish soldiers occupy an entire country, they deserve our financial support?

Square dat, Thom.

tommy, you are a thug. You think your ends are so holy that it justifies thuggery, but I bet if some students staged an occupation in protest of divestment or something you'd by absolutely shocked and livid at their behavior. It is people like you who gave the world the gulag.

Square dat, Sam.

Same here, if they let a group of students disrupt the operations of the university and get what they want, that will just lead to any disgruntled group of idiots taking over buildings whenever they want something. A society cannot function on the basis of giving anyone who can disrupt the society anything they want, because it is so easy to disrupt a society that you quickly end up with groups that (in the aggregate) demand more than 100% of available resources.

These students broadcast their crimes on the web. It isn't as though they can't be identified. They should be expelled and arrested for trespassing.

notice the careful attempts at balance in the end.

A "society" must be especially repressive when it comes to Palestinian human rights. They are scum, terrorist, you must know! As our friends never tire to tell us.