I look at the signs at Columbia University, and none of them make sense.  They don’t apply to the situation.  As if the students have no connection to the real live situation. 

Do they know that there are Bedouin who are hostages? Americans?  Thais? Are they enemy as well?  Do they too deserve to be tortured as resistance?

Do they know that most of the Jews they’re threatening don’t have any connection to Israel or the subjects of their protest?  

There is so much we all need to learn – but we’re not going to learn it on the south lawn of Columbia.

I spent 3 years as a visiting scholar at Columbia,  I saw Edward Said walking to class with his wife behind him carrying his briefcase, and using the stairs while he took the elevator.  That was my lesson at Columbia.