Tuesday, October 18, 2005
In the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies weekly update:
"It's 22:00 here in Boston. I just finished speaking to the Harvard Students for Israel.
Three people were ejected from the room by campus police after interrupting over and over -- none of those ejected were Arab. Their friends, apparently of Arab descent, who were kept out by police are still surrounding the building, Emerson Hall, with anti-Israel posters, an hour after the event ended.
The students were very upset but we kept going outside the room in the hall until the police let us back in. The protesters were led out in handcuffs.
When I finished, one student, a Muslim girl with her head covered came over to say thank you. She grew up in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and wanted to hear what I had to say."
Emerson is the hall where I saw Sharansky and Dore Gold (on separate nights). The students and faculty were far better behaved those evenings.