Yale Faculty Weigh in on Israel Boycotts; Dr. Samuel Abrams on Why Campus has Gone Crazy

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In this episode, Yale faculty members Edward Kaplan, Evan Morris, and Roya Hakakian discuss how Israel is treated on campus, the hypocrisy of academic boycotts of Israel, and their recent trip to the country.

• Roya Hakakian: “That doesn’t just reveal the hypocrisy of boycotts but also the impossibility of separating human beings and human inventions from one another.”
• Hakakian: “A lot of Arab Israelis, almost everyone that I interviewed with, [said] we don’t feel like second[class] citizens.”
• Dr. Ed Kaplan: “This is not a series of seemingly spontaneous independent realizations at campuses across the country. This was extremely organized. Somebody built a big button and pushed it on October 7th.”
• Dr. Evan Morris: “This is a war on reason—it’s a war on reason and civility.”

American Enterprise Institute’s Samuel Abrams talks about antisemitism on campus and the recent student encampments:

• Dr. Abrams: “The schools absolutely have a right to say ‘you can' t camp here, right here right now...it's creating a real threat, it's a disruption...’ and they're choosing not to do it.”
• Abrams: “It’s very clear that it was only the question of when was [DEI] going to turn on the Jewish community and on issues of Israel.”
• Abrams: “I marvel and just stay up at night in bed, almost daily now, wondering what a strange world I live in where I have to defend Israel's right to self-determination and to defend itself against those horrific attacks because logic and reason [have] fallen apart.”

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