Watch Harvard, MIT and UPenn Presidents Dodge Antisemitism Question Under Oath: Is Calling for Jewish Genocide Against the University Code of Conduct?
No, it is not constitutionally protected.
The video below is stomach turning.
If anyone wonders where the racism, hate and violence being displayed by college student groups is coming from you have your answer; it is coming right from the top.
Does anyone doubt that if a group of students wanted to start a “Klan Club” that called for blacks to be segregated on campus that the university would allow it? Would they let them have cross burnings and walk around in those funny sheets?
The answer is of course not. Such a student group would not be allowed, and the FBI would almost certainly get involved.
Yet there are student groups whose primary mission is the persecution of Jews everywhere, and/or the elimination of Jews everywhere. These groups are protected by the leftist establishment, the university leadership, and enjoys the tacet support of much of the Democratic Party (a list of said support can be seen HERE).
Let the dodging commence:
The word games these university presidents are trying to play is rather obvious.
The Supreme Court has a ruling on what constitutes a “true threat.” A true threat must be specific and constitute a near immediate incitement to harm. Common sense tells you that calling for genocide is unique in that it calls for the elimination of every targeted individual and cannot be interpreted in a context to be anything other than an individual threat.
The court made this clear in Virginia v. Black that even a cross burning can be a direct threat to black individuals, but even so there is a clear difference - the Klan never called for the deaths of black people everywhere. This is why the call for Jewish genocide is worse than a cross burning. Screaming intifada at Jewish students is a direct threat.
While these university presidents are trying to weasel their way out of saying that “genocide” does not violate the university code claiming that genocide calls can be constitutionally protected, these universities have long track records of persecuting faculty and students for what is clearly constitutionally protected speech! A database of such can be found at The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
It gets better. The court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines that if such “speech” causes a substantial disruption, interfering in the educational mission, then it crosses the line. It is reasonable to say that student groups calling for genocide of Jews and/or screaming “intifada” in their face would keep Jewish students from enjoying a safe educational environment.
Of course, the back pedaling didn’t take long once the university presidents were no longer under oath:
Our universities need an intervention. The state legislatures need to act.
UPDATE - A Reader sent us this meme. We do not know who the original author is: