Copeland: How to stop wrecking our country
By Dr. Tom Copeland | Guest Columnist
President George Washington, wearing a keffiyeh with a Palestinian flag across his shoulders? That’s what anti-Israel agitators recently did to the statue of our founding President, at the university named after him.
Protests at universities across the country are being organized and funded by anti-Israel groups. Many administrators have shown no backbone in dealing with them. But let’s add the boards of trustees, faculty, staff and parents of the agitators. Where are they? They are either completely absent, or in the case of faculty at places like Columbia, actively encouraging and supporting the protests.
Yet we cannot absolve the students themselves of responsibility. They are adults, although they have often been coddled. They believ...
