A group of Jewish students at Butler have written a letter on Angela Davis's deplatforming. Crucially, they insist that no Jewish student played any role in the decision to postpone the event. Not sure how they can know that, but it's what they say.
thebutlercollegian.com/2021/04/letter…
thebutlercollegian.com/2021/04/letter…
HOWEVER, they do seem to imply that they, the authors, complained to the student government about its decision to co-sponsor and fund the event. Since those complaints could easily have been the cause of the postponement, I'm not sure how their initial claim makes sense. 
So there are still some outstanding questions about what happened.
The rest of the letter is a kind of special pleading we often see when national media targets students for snowflakery. "I'm being mocked online, I'm being bombarded with verbal abuse, this is hate speech," etc.
The rest of the letter is a kind of special pleading we often see when national media targets students for snowflakery. "I'm being mocked online, I'm being bombarded with verbal abuse, this is hate speech," etc.
I read A LOT of stories like this, so believe when I say that this response is fairly typical. And I believe them. I sympathize with them. No matter what they did, they don't deserve the sort of snide mockery they're no doubt currently receiving. It's cruel and it's unfair.
But reader, it rankles to see people who are normally so quick to dismiss this sort of special pleading suddenly discover in it something noble.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1378748490927333384
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