Anti-Israel activist Megan Marzec’s arrest of her critics during an Ohio University student senate meeting led one exasperated student official to quit in a dramatic floor speech, but the instigator of the “Blood Bucket Challenge” has her defenders: namely, socialists.
In a letter to the editor of The Post, which has covered the Marzec controversy from the start, not only Midwest-area Students for Justice in Palestine chapters defended Marzec, but also Ohio-area chapters of the International Socialist Organization and Democratic Socialists of America, whose honorary chair is none other than Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West.
The letter reads:
Over the last weeks, we have been shocked at the deliberate smear campaign, death threats and racist, sexist and Islamophobic comments that Student Senate President Megan Marzec has received …
We the undersigned … strongly affirm President Marzec’s right to express her opinions without the fear of threats and intimidation. We ask the student bodies of our universities and the members of our communities to stand together, denounce this unacceptable violence, and work to guarantee that the students of our universities receive the freedom of speech and expression that we have been promised. We cannot sit by and allow bullies to silence and intimidate us students as they attack the very foundation of the academic freedom on which our universities claim to pride themselves.
It’s not clear what “violence” the letter refers to. Marzec earlier told the Post she had received death threats, providing two copies of such threats, but she did not file a police report. Nor is it clear how Marzec’s freedom of speech was denied. Critics have called for her to step down from her position.
Read the full letter here.
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