Politics at Swarthmore?

A.E
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:52:29 +0000

My kid told me about this today. He thought it was kind of obnoxious and immature, but it didn’t phase him much.



I guess the point the demonstrators were trying to make is that the checkpoints to which Palestinians are routinely subjected are obnoxious. Anyway, now that ID has confirmed the low number of Palestinian students at Swarthmore, it’s hard to imagine that this was anything but innocuous. They don’t have even enough people to cover all the entrances into Parrish, and that’s with 100% of them participating all day long (which is unlikely). It was obviously something people could easily avoid, so the choice to go through it and experience it was just that, a choice.