NOTE: Mondoweiss is a horrible blog filled with hatred and less than half truths. Simply awful. One wonders how they got invited or got wind of the now infamous meeting at VASSAR COLLEGE which, purportedly, was closed to outsiders? This is a strange article. What is going on on campus?
Two weeks back, Jill Schneiderman, a professor of Earth Sciences at Vassar College, put up a post on her blog about an angry meeting at the liberal arts school the night before:
last night I was knocked off-center by a belligerent academic community dedicated to vilifying anyone who dares set foot in Israel.
Schneiderman was about to do just that: set foot in Israel. On March 8, she flew to the country with 28 Vassar students and two other professors. As I post this, the group is touring Israel and Palestine studying water issues.
Many of those students are surely thinking about that meeting Schneiderman found belligerent back in New York’s Hudson Valley. For whatever these students think of what they are seeing in the dry hills of the Jordan Valley, they live in an American community; and it is there that they will bring back their ideas and shape them in months and years to come.
I was at the March 3 meeting that so upset Schneiderman, and it was truly unsettling. Over 200 students and faculty jammed a large room of the College Center, and torrents of anger ripped through the gathering. Most of them were directed at Israel or its supporters. Two or three times people shouted at one another. Several said they felt bullied. Schneiderman and another leader of the trip, Rachel Friedman, an associate professor of Greek and Roman studies, looked shocked. Keep Reading (but DO NOT support Mondoweiss!)
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