Gabriel: A Story of the Jews in Prague

“But in our zeal for activism, we have forgotten that when a student government takes a side in a conflict, when it decides that there are not two sides after all, it thereby abandons its role in the scholarly mission of the institution for the activism. And as the Judicial Board noted, where a student government's objective should be to protect and promote the interests of minorities, including minority opinions, against the tyranny of the majority, when the government chooses one side, it becomes the tyrannical majority instead. That is the moment when the activism begotten by scholarship overthrows the scholarship - the moment when the university launches its own destruction.””

— S. Kohn

“When the very professors and departments are the source of the hatred and disseminate propaganda disguised as fact and offer speakers without credentials as if they are experts, what chance, really, does the next generation of students have of learning the truth about Israel?””

— S. Kohn

“Part of the reason it's so hard to defend Israel is that facts and truth have lost their importance and been replaced by feeling and emotion.””

— S. Kohn

“One wonders how organizations that don't care about truth and facts are permitted to operate on college campuses, where you would think that truth and facts are important values.””

— S. Kohn

“When we permit the anti-Israel hostility, we permit the antisemitism. We can no longer permit it.””

— S. Kohn

“When the campus allows just a single narrative, the open-minded students do not seem so open-minded anymore. They have already made their decisions on who is oppressed and who is not. It's no surprise that when you've decided that Jewish students are privileged white kids, you've decided that antisemitism is impossible - even as you demonstrate it yourself.””

— S. Kohn

“To exist should not be to resist but to coexist. To exist should be to dialogue. To compromise. To strive toward peace. To reject these values is to threaten lives on both sides of the struggle.””

— S. Kohn

“Instead of working to engage debate and refute contentious ideas, students and faculty are shutting down avenues of inquiry and blocking the attempts of others to examine difficult issues. Such bullying stymies learning and is anti-intellectual.””

— S. Kohn

“Academic freedom does allow for protest. Students should protest and argue about positions with which they disagree. But academic freedom does not imply that differences of opinion may be voiced via taunts, nor does it suggest that intimidation is a legitimate and productive means to affect change. Academic freedom does not mean that students should be pressured to avoid unique and difficult educational opportunities because others impugn them.””

— S. Kohn