Barbara Kay, National Post, May 5, 2024
For seven months, since Oct. 7, university students have been enjoying revolutionary cosplay. Their faces swathed in Arafat scarves, they wave flags, demand Israel disinvestment, scream mantras premised in genocide of Jews: Living entirely in the moment, they find it all tremendously exhilarating. That there may be an eventual downside to their conduct doesn’t seem to occur to them.
So it came as a shock to some law students in the U.S. that certain pro-Hamas public pronouncements they put their name to following the Oct 7 pogrom of Israeli civilians might affect their post-university careers.
In late October, more than a dozen of America’s top law firms put law schools on notice that they “ have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses.” By zero tolerance, they meant the creation of an employment blacklist. …SOURCE