I’m sure this was unexpected for her. It was out of keeping with similar incidents in her experience. Tearing down posters is not usually punished by much of anything other than a caution and a lecture about others’ rights.
A little bit unjust, even- though I find her behavior objectionable.
This isn’t a normal situation, though. Schools are looking at a crisis that might grow into a disaster. Suspensions are what it is going to take. It might require a lot more to quiet this particular kind of unrest.
Anti-Semitism has a bad history and schools can’t afford to be caught out in too weak a response; even if the action was probably intended as anti-Israeli rather than Anti-Semitic. She probably never even thought of whether she was somehow supporting terrorism by tearing down a poster.
I hope a lot of other student children encounter about the same level of adversity. I don’t want poster-tear-down girls hurt, but this isn’t going to go away or fix itself without some sanctions.
It doesn't bother me a bit. The Left has been busy cancelling, debanking and otherwise ruining people's lives for much lesser "offenses." So let 'em suffer and get a dose of their own medicine!
When I was growing up in New York, NYU was referred to as N.Y.Jew, and Columbia had the reputation of being very Jewish, so it was surprising to me to see them as hotbeds of antisemitism, but I suppose antisemitism is where the money is these days.