The following statement was signed by nearly 60 Northwestern Pritzker Law School Faculty:
TO: Northwestern Pritzker Law School Community
FROM: Concerned Faculty
RE: Terrorism in Israel
On Saturday, October 7, Hamas terrorists perpetrated the greatest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. The massacre took the lives of over 1300 peaceful civilians of many nationalities, including at least 20 Americans. Many children were among the dead. Adjusted for population that would be about 45,000 deaths in the U.S., or fifteen 9/11 attacks in a single day.
Celebrants at a music festival were gunned down without mercy. Homes were invaded by gunmen, who used explosives to ensure there would be no survivors. There was no military purpose to the attack, only the goal of murdering as many Israeli civilians as possible. The terrorists posted videos of their barbarous acts. Over 100 hostages were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza, evidently including two women from Evanston.
These events have affected many students and faculty, of all faiths and backgrounds, in the Northwestern Pritzker community. In Israel, 18 students from our partner Tel Aviv University are among the murdered.
As faculty members dedicated to the rule of law, we choose to make clear that we unequivocally condemn Hamas’s wanton acts of terrorism, which have made the establishment of a just peace, recognizing the human rights of every community, all the more difficult to achieve.
Some have claimed that the Hamas atrocities must be blamed on Israel. What Hamas perpetrated was unspeakably evil. It is dehumanizing to blame the murders on the victims. We absolutely reject such acceptance, and near-endorsement, of terrorism.
Posted by Steve Lubet on October 13, 2023 at 06:05 PM
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It’s easy for law school professors to piously “absolutely reject such acceptance, and near-endorsement, of terrorism” by law students among others, but much more difficult to actually do something about it.
Perhaps they should consider reporting law students who support and “stand with” those who engage in mass murder and other atrocities to bar admission authorities so that such bodies can consider and determine if the signatories have the requisite character and fitness to be admitted to the bar.
WATCH – Can law students behind anti-Israel letters be stopped from joining the bar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDT6cZP910
See also, for example, what happened in Texas:
“Incivility” May Block Law Grads From Admission to Bar; Part of “Tsunami Of Backlash Against Stanford” Law School https://www.valuewalk.com/incivility-may-block-law-grads-from-admission-to-the-bar/ “In a movement sparked by Senator Ted Cruz and likely to spread to other states, law students seeking to practice law in Texas will be required to disclose to bar admission officials whether they have even engaged in ‘incivility and violations of school policies.’ If so, they may be denied admission to the bar.”
Red State To Revise Bar Application To Flag Students Who Participate In Disruptive Protests https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/04/15/red-state-to-revise-bar-application-to-flag-students-who-participate-in-disruptive-protests/ “The Texas Board of Law Examiners plans to revise its bar application to grill applicants on whether they have engaged in any “incivility and violations of school policies” after a conservative judge was heckled at a prestigious law school in March, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.”
Posted by: LawProf John Banzhaf | Oct 13, 2023 6:37:05 PM