As a VC commenter points out, universities in the past have often been tolerant of illicit behavior by student protestors, at least so long as they were protesting for lefty causes like Black Lives Matter or action on climate change. So why should David L. Bernstein and I insist that anti-encampment and anti-disruption rules be strictly enforced for anti-Israel demonstrators?

The answer is that universities have not been ideologically neutral in what behaviors they allow. Universities back in the day allowed anti-apartheid encampments to persist, despite the encampments violating school rules. Is there any reasonable possibility they would have similarly permitted pro-apartheid encampments? Universities have been loathe to even permit satirical affirmative action bake sales , even when th

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