Student government is a farce manufactured by leftist groups. It works like this. The small groups of ambitious students who actually run for student government positions have been mainly sidelined by leftist identity politics coalitions. The one actual job these groups have, to dispense student activity fees forcibly collected from students, were then redirected to funding various leftist, including pro-terrorist, causes.

Now as the new semester arrives, some of these student governments are ‘defunding’ student activities to pressure administrations into meeting their pro-terrorist demands.

They’ve gotten away with everything else so far, including the encampments, because most college students don’t care about student government, don’t vote or, if they do vote, follow along with whatever the student papers, who are run by the same leftists, tell them. (Yes, college really is a microcosm of our system.)

But what happens if the student governments do something that impacts students. And not just Jewish ones.

This happened at the New School in New York and now it’s happening at the University of Michigan.

The UM administration is looking for ways to fund student activities while working around the terrorists who have taken control of student government.

Meanwhile, students have paid in mandatory activity fees for activities they can’t use unless the terrorists get their way.

And the question is whether any lessons will be learned by students about the cost of letting leftist radicals and their Islamist allies control the process.