Muh flag…
As mentioned towards the end of the piece there is a concerted campaign to smear Universities in the US as breeding grounds for turrism…
… and all originating from a handful of individuals. A lecturer is accused of failing to be sympathetic towards a student traumatised by the widespread “hatred” on campus, denying their request for extra time to complete an assignment. About as convincing as “…a Hamas-supporting Pitbull pissed on my homework.”
One source of trauma was witnessing cruel people taking down posters of hostages taken by Hamas. Right up there with shooting the actual hostages dead, we’ll all agree…
The President of Harvard survived the attempts to chuck her out of her post btw. Whether or not plagiarism allegations will gain enough traction for a second line of attack, this time seemingly valid, remains to be seen.
The culture wars are not so much simmering as seething. Meanwhile, near Yemen, the next part of the next world war is wheeled onto the stage.