On Monday, I went up to Cal State Poly Humboldt and hung out at the Gaza encampment. Lots of beards and body odor, and an unavoidable, if veiled, Jew hate.

It left me feeling sad, despondent, angry.

Then I wrote this for The Free Press.

thefp.com/p/peter-savodn…

“They want their lifeways to be respected—and they want us to obey—instead of those of the imperialist United States government.”

Student protesters talk colonialism reparations with The FP’s @PeterSavodnik: thefp.pub/4b1SXPQ

Before all hell broke loose last night, @BenKawaller went to UCLA’s campus to give anti-Israel demonstrators the opportunity to state—in their own words—their perspective on the conflict and their demands for administrators.

Get more from Ben here: thefp.pub/3JICxQb

The Kids vs. the Empire

@PeterSavodnik: “No one I spoke to had been to Israel or the West Bank or Gaza, or could define Zionism.”

A report from an encampment 7,248 miles from Gaza: thefp.pub/4b1SXPQ

“The purpose of PEN is to defend freedom of speech... It requires considerable intellectual acrobatics for Writers Against the War on Gaza to regard the shutting down of events to advance free expression as ‘a win for free expression.’ ” thefp.pub/44pTTL2

Respectful dialogue is everything 🤝

Read more about @BenKawaller’s enlightening trip to the LDS conference in Salt Lake City: thefp.pub/4bBk2JB

“our righteous deeds are like filthy rags to God.”

It's sort of like saying that if a restaurant can’t deny you service, the chef is obliged to come cook in your apartment—except you’ve stormed the chef’s apartment, and now you want him to cook you dinner there.

thefp.com/p/a-tale-of-tw…

“Save some pesky details—like, say, the chants for globalizing the intifada (a call for globalizing a campaign of terror aimed at killing Jews)... the encampment was just kids being kids.”

Suzy Weiss on Columbia’s anti-Israel protests: thefp.pub/3QsYBlD

I was delighted to attend—well, to lurk outside of—the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for The Free Press. Here is the latest episode of Ben Meets America!

An Atheist Finds Faith Among the Mormons, with @BenKawaller.

Read on: thefp.pub/4bBk2JB

Google's move to stop catering to the every whim and priority of pampered wannabe activists was the final nail in the coffin of 'bring your whole self to work'. Please don't. Bring your work self to work, save the rest for yourself and after hours. thefp.com/p/when-silicon…

“What’s the point of having ‘fuck you’ money if you don’t ever say fuck you?”

Another gem in a long line of great articles by The Free Press

thefp.com/p/when-silicon…

“We’re cowards, conformists, and copycats. Real freedom of expression is too scary; we’d rather hide in a crowd whose keffiyeh-masked members all shout the same thing.”

Lionel Shriver on PEN America caving under pressure: thefp.pub/44pTTL2

A few weeks ago I was in Dallas to attend a debate presented by The Free Press and FIRE !! It’s now up for a listen! 🎧
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More in today’s Front Page from @OllyWiseman:

→Trump on trial—in court and in the press.
→PEN America caves for Hamas.
→Activism in the streets—no action in the sheets?
→@BenKawaller meets the Mormons.
→The hight cost of canceling debt.
→And more: thefp.pub/3UkvqCl

Written last November, Ilya Shapiro's The Free Press piece remains an excellent primer on free speech and campus protests.

Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins thefp.com/p/where-free-s…

Reminder about this awesome investigation from The Free Press last year: “The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage”

thefp.com/p/american-mar…

“Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you?” So like, is it possible that they could get just a simple glass of water? With three lemons? And a Caesar salad with dressing on the side? Thankssomuch! 

—Suzy Weiss