On the quiet morning of October 7, 2023, the Palestinian terror group Hamas opened a barbaric new chapter in the history of terrorism, murdering 1,400 Israelis and taking more than 200 hostages. Attacking defenseless kibbutzim and young revelers at a music festival, Hamas hunted down women, children, and the elderly. Countless bodies showed signs of torture, with children’s eyes cut out and fingers cut off before they were executed. Hamas has murdered or taken hostage citizens of more than 40 countries.
No sooner had Hamas’s unspeakable atrocities come to light than scores of university student groups publicly and solely blamed Israel, expressing their solidarity with Hamas. Free speech is a core principle of universities. But there are others — such as dialogue, fairness, and tolerance — that universities have for too many years ignored.
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