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Cheer for terrorists if you want, college kids, but don’t keep other students from getting an education (opinion)

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04.05.2024

If privileged college kids want to root for terrorists, that’s their right, as wrong-headed as it is.

But they shouldn’t keep other kids from getting an education while they’re doing it.

But that’s what we’ve seen across the country as college campuses have been shut down and classes disrupted because of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Two of the biggest national flashpoints have been here in New York City, at Columbia University and at CUNY’s City College.

Protestors erected encampments and in some cases invaded school buildings. The colleges were shut down for a time and classes canceled.

Wonderful. Some got to indulge their right to free speech while others got denied the education that they’ve paid for.

It wasn’t that long ago that some of these very same students had their........

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