WELL, OF COURSE: “What I do know is that even the most peaceful of protests would be treated as outrages if they were interpreted as, say, anti-Black.”

Plus: “And besides, calling all this peaceful stretches the use of the word rather implausibly. It’s an odd kind of peace when a local rabbi urges Jewish students to go home as soon as possible, when an Arab-Israeli activist is roughed up on Broadway, when the angry chanting becomes so constant that you almost start not to hear it and it starts to feel normal to see posters and clothing portraying Hamas as heroes.”