CHUTZPAH: Palestinian students are suing University of Illinois Chicago for being excluded from an information session for study abroad to Israel. According to the plaintiffs’ own press release, there was disruptive scheme afoot that was thwarted: “I planned to attend the information session to voice my concerns about how a study abroad program in Israel discriminates against me as a Palestinian student.”

Well You see an ‘information session’ is for *them* to give *you* information about the program, not for *you* to hijack the session to express your political views. As a Twitter commenter noted, “the plaintiffs are seeking to establish a permanent right to harass and obstruct any activity related to Israel.”

The standard illustration of the Yiddish word chutzpah is the guy who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy because he is an orphan. Suing a university for being denied the “right” to disrupt university activities is another good one.