The Issue: Piers Morgan’s op-ed demanding accountability from the parents of student protesters.
I laughed while reading Piers Morgan ask about the parents of the protesting students at Columbia (“Where the hell are their parents?!” May 1).
The answer is that the parents either don’t care or actually support what their spoiled and clueless offspring are doing. Morgan also asks where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is. He’s missing, off chasing former President Donald Trump at the bidding of President Biden’s administration.
Instead, Morgan should focus more on Columbia’s craven President Minouche Shafik and her cowardly cohorts, who are letting this obscene and disgraceful display against moral decency play out completely unopposed.
But not to worry. The warm season will soon be upon us and the mob will naturally dissipate as its members seek out summer vacation.
Frank Olivieri
Ft. Myers, Fla.
Piers Morgan asks, “Where are the parents?” But I believe a better question is, “Who are these students?”
I believe that half of these “students” are not really students at all. I demand that the percentage of students and non-students taken into custody be publicly released — not just in New York, but nationwide.
Bill Quigley
Clark, NJ
Firstly, was the question “Where are the parents?” relevant during the 1968 Columbia protests? No, it wasn’t.
Secondly, Morgan misinterprets the word “intifada.” Yes, intifada means “uprising” in Arabic — but these protests are an uprising against the genocide of the Palestinian people, not Jews.
And to answer his inquiry about why Jewish people protest against Israel: It’s because they are opposed to genocide, like Dartmouth College’s head of Jewish studies —who was arrested and banned from Dartmouth for defending her pro-Palestinian students.
Phil Stein
Merced, Calif.
I think that the families of the students involved in the damages to the property of their schools should be held responsible for paying the costs to repair those damages. I think their families would put a very quick end to their participation if they have to pay for it.
Jean Cole
Juno Beach. Fla
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The Issue: President Biden’s speech condemning the student protests for promoting civil disorder.
President Biden acts purely on political calculus (“Slow Joe: we must have order,” May 3).
Hence his delay and refusal to candidly speak out against antisemitism and the criminal riots going on at universities all across the country over these past several weeks. Biden and his incompetent advisers first have to test the political waters to see how radical-left Democrats will react to any condemnation of the heinous anti-Zionist speech and acts that are occurring.
This also explains his indecision, delay and outright refusal to fully condemn the students and outside agitators who are wreaking havoc on our nation’s college campuses. “Politics over principle” is President Biden’s mantra.
Harold Fishman
Manhattan
With all the campus antisemitism going on, President Biden gave another speech.
But since this campus antisemitism violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, why hasn’t he ordered the Justice Department to go after these US-flag-burning antisemites and their enablers, like how he went after the Jan. 6 rioters? He could have also dispatched the US Marshals, much like then-President Dwight Eisenhower did at Little Rock in 1954.
Bill Isler
Floral Park
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