>Appeasing terrorists or joining them?
A: Yes
To allow this to continue requires far more than just giving in to assuage the feelings of the protestors in an attempt to avoid violent behavior; it requires that the cowardly administrators at the very least tacitly validate the often-unstated, but unavoidably ever-present objective of the terrorist groups the protestors publicly support; that is, the annihilation of the Jewish state and the extermination of the Jewish people.
Far too many people, not just the immoral protestors and the cowardly administrators, forget -- more likely, deliberately ignore -- the underlying fact that this conflict is a religious war ... not a political war ... and political solutions do not, can not and will not work. Be assured that HAMAS very well knows this and is conducting it as such ... which is why they will not negotiate a settlement ... not in any real sense.)