Pro-Palestinian protests at US universities and their Deans

America's young intellectuals apparently have the moral compass of the nation, but that is not being recognised. True, Netanyahu has shown he is a cold-blooded mass-murderer, and these university students show their horror. Astonishingly though, not a single Dean of the many universities in the US publicly said he is proud of his students or that he admires them. What is wrong there?  Are they all right-wing men and women with a closed mind? Or are they afraid their incoming money flow will stop? Not hearing them say the obvious is worrisome. Neither did any of them warn the protesters against the always existing small group in any demonstration that goes too far. Where is the Dean with an open mind, a warm heart and some courage? 

The other aspect of these demonstrations is they make life really difficult for the US government and the President. The US has a very basic loyalty with Israel. A sudden mass murdering of Palestinians cannot immediately make the US change that loyalty. A nation wishes to have some trustfulness and constance in its political attitudes. But the students show how morally wrong this loyalty has suddenly become, when their US - it is also their country - is now loyal to a nation that is led by the worst mass-murderer of the century. Biden, after the warnings he gave Netanyahu, should have used his public voice, saying 'we have to retire our loyalty and stop our military help if you do not immediately cease this killing of civilians.' We know Netanyahu would have continued all the same and then the US military should immediately have stopped all weapons flowing to Israel. The previously so excellent Biden is showing unacceptable slowness and weakness here. Netanyahu is a very hard and quick decider, he needs a very hard and immediate response. The only politician who spoke well, almost too well, even if he has much less power, is Josip Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief. Borrell said Netanyahu morally acts as bad as what Hitler did in WW 2. As so often, his inflammatory words have been eliminated from the record. But what he said is what the US students rightly demonstrated about.