Universities hemorrhage public trust by folding to the mob

On May 6, Georgetown University Law Center announced that former Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro, its 2026 commencement speaker, had withdrawn from the ceremony. His apparent offense: writing opinion essays defending Israel and criticizing higher education’s response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.

After a student petition labeled his views “controversial, Zionist, and harmful,” Schapiro chose to pull out lest he “distract from the day’s festivities.”