A NEW LOW AT RUTGERS: It was bad enough when the anti-Israel fanatics at Rutgers University were merely throwing pies at Israeli politicians, or extolling the virtues of Soviet Bolshevism to the New York Times. Those things, loathsome as they were, could at least be laughed off as stupid kids doing stupid things. But something happened over the weekend at the New Brunswick campus that wasn't funny at all, and plunged what's going on at Rutgers to a nadir- two university buildings were spraypainted with swastikas.
Now it may have just been some local troublemakers who decided to spraypaint the campus' Hillel House and AEpi fraternity with Nazi symbols just for kicks. But coming just two days after an NJ Solidarity member threw a pie at Natan Sharansky, and knowing their track record, can we really put it past the "Solidarity" jackasses to do such a thing? With their calls that Israel has "no right to exist," the physical attack on Sharansky (something not even Hamas has ever tried), their proposal to bring Hamas members to campus, and now the swastikas, it's almost as though some anti-Semitic element (whether Solidarity or someone else) is trying to start a parallel intifada, right in Central New Jersey.
President Richard McCormick, at least, has been on the right side of this. While most college presidents are prostrate before the false God of PC, McCormick has taken a principled stand; if there was any doubt that the revocation of Solidarity's conference permit was the right thing to do, this weekend's events removed it.