"The chancellor of Syracuse University revealed his belief that pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests were encouraged and potentially orchestrated by Iran while speaking on a panel this week in Washington, D.C.
"Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke on a panel Tuesday alongside the chancellors from Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis and described the protest activity that took place on his college campus as well as other universities across the country.
""When things happened that I really believe were encouraged from Iran," Syverud explained to the audience. "[The protests] did not have the involvement of very many, if any, of our own students."
"Syracuse’s top official also discussed the difficulty of holding individuals, including students, accountable because of the use of face masks or coverings intentionally used to shield identity.
" 'People were using masks to avoid accountability for what they were saying and doing," Syverud added, noting that people in masks could have been "activists from elsewhere."
Anti-Israel agitator sentenced for hate crimes against Jewish protesters
. . . "The attack on Palombo’s mural is more than vandalism. It is a warning — that Europe’s oldest hatred, once thought to have been consigned to history, is again defacing its walls and consciences. The attempt to erase the face of Shiri Bibas is an attempt to erase accountability, to efface the line between victim and aggressor.
"Yet amid the desecration, one truth endures: remembrance cannot be destroyed. As long as artists like Palombo continue to paint, and as long as free societies refuse to look away, the erased face of Shiri Bibas will remain not a void but a mirror — reflecting what the civilized world must never forget."
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