Grateful for Tsurkov’s Release and Eisgruber’s Actions

I’m glad that Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released. If Trump did indeed play a role in her release, that’s one of the very few good things he has done, in my opinion. 

I don’t agree with Michael Goldstein, however, that Princeton is indifferent to its Jewish students. To the contrary, Princeton seems to have leaned too much in favor of Israel, giving too little support to the courageous students who have tried to draw attention to Israel’s long history of mistreating the Palestinian people, especially during the past two years. 

I, for one, am deeply grateful to President Eisgruber for courageously resisting Trump. And we must all be careful not to lump all Muslims with Islamist terrorists. My friend Akbar Ahmed, formerly a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, just published his book, America at the Crossroads: Race, Islam, and Leadership. At a book launching event I attended yesterday at American University, Akbar spoke of the long history of slanders against Islam, after the tragic events of 9/11. After all, we don’t lump all Christians with the IRA terrorists of the “Troubles” of the late 20th century in Ireland.