A couple of things Tropical Soulvangelical forgot to mention with respect to the protests at Columbia University. Firstly, he did hear a couple days ago that there's a -counter- protest there as well, emphasizing the need for the return of the hostages, and this is another effort that TSV recommends supporting. But here's something he's just figured out regarding how the progressives tend to think. Whenever they mount an extreme protest campaign about something, they go out of their way to make their message as reasonable sounding as possible or at least somewhat ambivalent, not meant to stir up strong feelings one way or another. A ceasefire by itself isn't necessarily controversial. But what TSV observes this does is by default paint any counterprotest as automatically being -against- or the -opposite- of the canon protestors' messaging and hence -un- reasonable. The counterprotest at Columbia TSV observes as not opposing a ceasefire as much as bringing the hostages home. Of course TSV notices the protest groups as bearing sheer contempt for the hostages, and at the risk of repeating himself, generally -trumpist-. So it's supporting the counterprotest and again, reiterating that Columbia retain its Israel investments and not to divest. He also encourages another counterprotest for Columbia students essentially protesting the uncivil nature of the protests by taking Columbia up on its online/virtual learning offer, even if they don't have to deal with the protestors. Just do what they can to not step foot on campus and hence dignify the protests. Stay tuned as TSV monitors further developments as he may have further proclamations.