In this piece from the Free Press, its author argues that the way to stop campus leftist groups from engaging in “extremism” is to pressure donors to threaten to stop donating - using economic power to compel universities to shut down groups that are critical of Israel.

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Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times until they got too woke for even her, runs The Free Press and she’s a passionate Zionist. Which is 100% fine. She and they can print whatever they’d like. But I would gently suggest that what is motivating their coverage is that support for Israel and not an attachment to the abstraction of free thinking. That’s not an accusation of hypocrisy; it’s an observation about what really motivates people. There’s nothing wrong with that. But the shibboleth of free inquiry is powerfully incompatible with this sort of moment, a moment when people are calling for moral absolutism and the insistence that we all pick sides.