JEWISH INSIDER
UF President Ben Sasse: Negotiations with ‘the people who happen to scream the loudest,’ are unwise
Gabby Deutch
May 7, 2024

Last week, while college administrators across the U.S. seemed paralyzed over how to respond to campus anti-Israel protesters, one school weighed in with a simple statement that served as a counterweight to the hemming and hawing of elite private universities. “The University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children,” a UF spokesperson said, declaring that students in an unauthorized encampment would face disciplinary action if they did not leave. The statement achieved every PR flak’s dream: It went viral. Much of the positive attention heaped on the school landed on Ben Sasse, the former Nebraska senator and Yale-educated historian who has been the president of UF since early 2023.  “It isn’t that complicated to affirm free speech and free assembly, which are fundamental American rights and something that institutionally we’re committed to. But that doesn’t mean that the people who are the loudest are the ones who don’t have to obey the rules that everybody else does…”READ MORE

JPOST American Jews should take a look at Catholic universities There are excellent Jewish institutions that have taken courageous stands, Yeshiva University and Brandeis University among them. But they cannot accommodate every Jewish student. Maybe it is time to start building on another foundation in front of us. Many Catholic liberal arts universities like Assumption do not have ivy growing up their walls. But neither do we have students occupying the buildings those walls enclose to demand the eradication of the only Jewish state in the world. READ MORE