“How can you have university course where ideas are not up for discussion or interpretation.”
Her reaction to sanctions on free speech in Columbia University are commented on by Jewish Holocaust scholar Marianne Hirsch.
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Her reaction to sanctions on free speech in Columbia University are commented on by Jewish Holocaust scholar Marianne Hirsch as she questions what is clear censorship and a shutdown of free speech in regard to academic freedom in teaching on campus. In being forced to agree to the IHRA restrictions imposed by the Trump administration in order to receive important federal funds, Columbia, as well as other colleges and universties, has accepted these restrictions on free speech in regard to Palestine/Israel.
Hirsch comments: Columbia is “no longer a place of open inquiry.”
“How can you have university course where ideas are not up for discussion or interpretation.”
She has stated that she may resign, in which case she would be joining scholars from other universities, some of whom are Jewish (as is Glenn Greenwald).
In addition “antisemitism” mandatory training is being demanded for American students by pro-Israel groups at US colleges and universities
In the meantime an estimated 300,000 pro-Palestine protestors turned out in Sydney, Australia in the latest major demonstration. In the UK although now declared a “terrorist” act to protest the genocide in Palestine, protesters from the continue to risk arrest in daily protests.
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