The performative hypocrisy of the pro-Palestine mob
You haven’t really made it in life until you’ve addressed the Oxford Union. That’s how I feel upon reading the flattering invitation to debate the proposition, ‘This House Believes Modern Youth Activism is Primarily Performative’, which tells me that I am ‘a sharp and independent voice’ with ‘a historically informed perspective’ who challenges ‘orthodoxies across the ideological spectrum’. Unfortunately, the 200-year-old body cannot cover the airfare from Washington to London, let alone an honorarium. But with an appeal like that, how can I say no? As an undergraduate, I was a member of the Yale Political Union, which, like the Oxbridge institutions on which it was modelled, is a boot camp for future politicians.
