Once again cowardice is disguised as evenhandedness.  We read that "Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier described his North Star as an unwillingness to appease one side or the other through intense protests, arrests and student expulsions on his campus."

“Intense protests,” of course, means seizing buildings, disrupting classes, defacing statues, and threatening Jewish students.  So although I hope Chancellor Diermeier’s view has been misreported, it seems that he doesn’t want to “appease” either those who do these things, or those who want to arrest and expel them to protect the peaceful mission of the university.

That is appeasement, for it means that those who do these things will get away with it.

It’s one thing not to take sides about policy toward Israel.  It’s another thing not to take sides between civility and barbarism.  Disgusting.