As he heads to Congress to face an inquisition, he takes unreasonable criticism at home.
Jonathan Holloway speaks to the graduating class of 2024 during Rutgers Commencement at SHI Stadium in Piscataway. Sunday, May 12, 2024On Thursday, Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway will travel to Washington to face an inquisition in Congress led by a fire-breathing Republican who has already decided that he’s a monster.
But this rush to weaponize events on college campuses and demonize people like Holloway is all about politics, another reminder of how degraded our national conversation has become -- and how divorced from reality. Three members of Congress have taken hard shots at Holloway as well -- Reps. Josh Gottheimer, Donald Norcross and Chris Smith. So has Sen. Jon Bramnick, a GOP candidate for governor. And so have some Jewish groups, including the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, which called his concessions to protesters. But that’s a distortion. He rejected the big demands -- to divest university funds, to cut ties with Tel Aviv University.
It bothers most of them that Halloway gave even an inch. They would have preferred that he enlist the police and order arrests, come what may. His North Star in this episode was to protect freedom of speech, at the encampment and in the classroom, while drawing a hard line on disruptions of the school’s academic mission or threats to student safety.
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