The Soft Anti-Semitism of Polite Expectations 

Michael Palin and John Cleese, “Argument, Clinic,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Nov. 2, 1972. Screen shot.

Rules for protests

I’ve been struck lately, by the inertness of criticism lodged against student protesters — they might have been written by AI. They all begin with a vague expression of support for Jewish and Islamic students, proceed to condemn anti-Semitism “in all its forms”, endorse free speech, and conclude with a vow to forcibly remove and arrest any student who is violent or disrupts the work of the university.