“Free Speech Warriors” are AWOL now that it’s pro-Palestinian voices getting canceled, and leftists have suddenly dropped the premise that ideas make people unsafe.
and woke censorship, making millions of dollars while complaining that they’ve been shut out of the institutions of journalism.Meanwhile, the tactics and rhetoric of the left have contradicted everything progressives say they stand for in terms of solidarity and safety, at times spilling over into overt antisemitism.
But even if the statement is wrong-headed, offensive, and even, in its gross insensitivity to the mass slaughter of Jews, borderline antisemitic, it is political speech, after all.and rightly noted that student organizations do not speak for the university), has itself been widely condemned, with donors andwithdrawing their support. tweeted a video of a protest outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
To be fair, there have also been voices applying free speech principles even to objectionable speech acts. “Let the Activists Have Their Loathsome Rallies,” advised Thomas Chatterton Williams infor pro-Palestinian voices and “recommended a pause” to the businesses seeking to punish students for exercising their free speech rights.by Nadine Strossen and Pamela Paresky entitled, “Even Antisemites Deserve Free Speech.” incitements to violence.
To repeat, I found the Harvard student letter not only wrong-headed but personally painful to read, especially as it came out as I was doomscrolling through videos of murder and kidnapping at a festival site I attended a few years ago. But should all those students be canceled? Doxxed? Pilloried? And conversely, is it not possible for left-wing activists to express solidarity with Palestine without equating all Jews with right-wing Zionists, harassing us, and taunting us while we are still reeling from the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust? The Left hasTo be sure, neither left-wing activists nor American Jews are the real victims here.
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