"I spelled out the risks to Aidan: suspension, loss of housing and medical care, reputational harm, damage to career prospects. 'The students in Gaza don’t have schools to protest in; they don’t have medical care to be taken away from them,' he replied. 'This is nothing compared to what they’re experiencing.' It was a familiar sentiment on the part of students I had met by now, this throwing it back to Gaza as a sort of compass to maintain direction and remember the stakes. And it came with the heartbreaking, terrifying resolution that only young people are capable of, still unbroken by compromise or experience of how flooring the toll is when it arrives. In them, there is a compass too."
~ Nesrine Malik
No comments:
Post a Comment