After reading the reports of protesting on the Princeton campus, I have only a feeling of sadness for my alma mater. That those protesting on behalf of the Palestinians did so in such a clumsy, anarchial manner, so beneath the expectations for Princeton students, is mortifying. Intimidating classmates and campus employees, barricading Clio, and shouting crude epithets only shows the protesters don’t have sufficient knowledge of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian lands to make an intelligent argument, resorting to disruption to make up for their ignorance.
In times of controversy, I always believed Princeton would find a higher ground. But, instead of taking an elevated discourse of the issue, Princeton has opted to remove a rung of its stature. Princeton becomes just another copycat protester.
At this point, I don’t recognize the students, the faculty, or the administration of the Princeton I attended.