One of the many ugly incidents in the U.S. since the October 7 assault by Hamas against Israeli citizens occurred at Arizona State University and involved Professor Jonathan Yudelman. Over a verbal altercation off campus, he will likely lose his job. ASU president Michael Crow, who styles himself as something of a reformer, quickly buckled to the pressure to punish Yudelman for the crime of disputing what an angry supporter of Hamas had said.
Read the story here, related by Professor C. Bradley Thompson. He aptly likens it to the Dreyfus affair.
It’s a litmus test of character for a college president to say to an angry mob, “We have procedures to follow, procedures to ensure that we don’t unfairly judge anyone.” Michael Crow has failed that test.