It doesn't help that the culture cultivated in universities lately didn't leave room for nuance either. There were protests, pulled fire alarms, and general activism against people who had a slightly inconvenient opinion. Something anyone at a university should certainly be able to stomach. But leadership did not defend people with divergent opinions lately, even if that is foundational to academic teaching. To now do so in case of calling for genocide, summoning the broad excuse of context, is severely contradicting previous behavior and not convincing. Context can often explain something not obvious, but in this case that would still be very hard to do.

Yes, it was a show trial. An easy one because the rules were laid out themselves by the accused. In my opinion, a change of leadership could benefit a few universities instead of their vanity around race, sex or their simple worldview of oppressor and oppressed that is mirrored by a lot of people I would describe as miseducated.