ESSAY: The students were right

Some notes on Gaza, claims of genocide, how ideas on the edge become mainstream, and the complications of big tents and uncritical welcomes

Wait long enough and the things only students used to say become received wisdom.

We are living through that process again, as once-dismissed and at times criminalized ideas about Israel’s war on Gaza become mainstream.

Not long ago, it was only those on the margins of polite society, those with a surplus of courage or a deficit of things to lose, who cal…