Never...ne-eh-eh-eh-eh-ver...NEV-AAAAAHHHH!...has there been greater need to mime the late, pompous Winston Churchill while discussing a tiny fragment of American mass culture, one made relevant on shitty college campuses everywhere right now.   Our great cigar smoking, brandy swilling collective society, the portly hypertensive  USA,  has never had greater need for its schlamaazels!

For local yokels in the US:  It is we small victims of common misfortune who are most threatened by violent protest against one or both of two warring factions.   One can be maimed, equally, by Israeli or Palestinian combatants here and abroad, unilaterally.  A schmutzig dilemma.   We are all instantly reminded of the Jewish Dilemma:  free ham.

I'm concerned about poor schmageggies here, who might be inconvenienced, harmed, dare I mention wrongfully Xed, merely from traipsing our villages, our loin cloths and muslin body wrappings held in place with floral bungee cords they sell at Dollar Tree in Westview,  our sandals of molded plastic from Five Below off Smithfield Street.  There's more suds in the beer glass.

Do people really have the right to free speech and free expression on college campuses?  Or, is this a collective figment of our jurisprudential imaginations?   If one is studying math at school, and intends to apply  expertise in a career going forward from schooling and ultimately certification, e.g. a diploma, one might say the poor schmuck is entitled to study math in peace.  He/she is not obliged to hold opinions for or against Hamas or Israel.  One plus one equals two in both camps.   There in no such thing as the right to disrupt business or to engage in any form of harassment against anyone.  The right to occupy space anywhere in public is a questionable thing.   Don't people need a permit from the city to conduct a protest downtown?  Why would the game be different on a campus?  Suppose the fact that students and faculty have everything of theirs invested in what they are doing, money, time and work.   This could negate the rights of others to interfere.  And protest activity is tertiary to day to day business at school.  Oy gevalt.  people are meshugana.