Everyone has bad ideas. We should judge people not for having them, but for their ability to grow out of them
Harvard University campus: Student leaders at the university suffered a serious backlash for blaming Israel for the October 7th Hamas massacre. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The New York Timescitizens, Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee wrote a letter holding the Israeli regime “entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence”. The letter emphasised that the “apartheid regime is the only one to blame” for the events of that day.
But such is the peril of student politics. When we lack any of the perspective granted by age, but are nonetheless girded by the enthusiasm of youth, it can drive us to very strange conclusions. This Harvard letter is a rather extreme example – this is perhaps the most emotive and divisive global conflict any of us will ever bear witness to in our lives. But students make foolish errors of judgment when it comes to their politics all of the time.
It is easy to laugh at the absurdities, the excesses and the left-wing pieties of student politics. But a little bit of charity can be granted too: everyone has bad ideas. We should judge people by their ability to grow out of them. Everyone is liable to adapt their views as the world changes. The students who posted Palestinian flags on social media within hours of a Hamas terrorist attack at a music festival ought to come to regret it. I suspect many will.
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