‘What are your reasons for opposing mass slaughter?’ is not a serious question
At student protests in Ireland, the UK and the US, their critics are rightly being confronted with a wall of blankness and silence
By the time Alan Shatter tried to engage student protesters at UCD in discussion, he had already described their counterparts at Trinity College as 'Hamas supporters', so it’s not surprising they didn’t take him up on it. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
