Campus protests

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the interim chancellor at the University of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lee Roberts, ordered the removal on April 30 of an “encampment” on a grassy area of campus called Polk Place. Later that day, protestors returned to Polk Place, took down its American flag and raised a Palestinian flag in its place. After Roberts, accompanied by police, returned the American flag to its proper place, protestors sought to remove it a second time. Students from Pi Kappa Phi and other campus fraternities intervened to protect the flag.

Before opining on these events, I should tell you more about the protestors in question, many of whom have no affiliation with UNC-Chapel Hill. They are not peace activists. They are not advocates for dialogue, or compromise, or a two-state solution.

John Hood is a John Locke Foundation board member.

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