The Yale conference on “Pinkwashing and Feminism in Palestine” was canceled — or so Yale had us believe. The conference was canceled after its sponsor — the Yale Women’s Center, housed and funded by Yale — received unrelated discrimination complaints. How convenient, given mounting media attention. After I co-authored a piece in these pages about the conference, Yale officials informed The Hill’s editors that the conference had been canceled, to ensure the university would escape the limelight. But the student organizers announced soon thereafter that the conference would proceed anyway, only without the Women’s Center as its sponsor. The organizers...