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![]() ![]() From The Washington Post, "To fight antisemitism on campuses, we must restrict speech": Claire O. Finkelstein is Algernon Biddle professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the school's Open Expression Committee and chair of the law school's committee on academic freedom. The views expressed here are the author's own.Actionable calls for violence and death threats are now, and have always been, illegal. This is purely about censoring criticism of Israel and Jews, whom she evidently views as beyond critique. University presidents are resisting this conclusion. Rather than confront the conflict between the commitment to free speech and the commitment to eliminating the hostile environment facing Jewish students on campus, many simply affirm their commitment to both or buy time by setting up task forces to study the problem. Some have attempted to split the difference by saying they are institutionally committed to free speech but personally offended by antisemitism. Others have said the answer to hate speech is education and more speech.Two and a half centuries of free speech needs to end because Jews and Muslims can't iron out their differences and get along together in America? In a video message released the day after her testimony, Magill issued an apology in which she suggested that her statements, while legally correct, were insensitive because she was "not focused on" the fact that a call for genocide is "a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate." While many remained deeply troubled by the insensitivity of her comments, I am most concerned about the legal and policy conclusions Magill endorsed: that speech calling for Jewish genocide does not violate campus policies at the University of Pennsylvania. This is profoundly wrong.Finkelstein needs to lie and claim pro-Palestine students were calling for "genocide" to make her point. That never happened, just like the stories of Hamas "beheading 40 babies," "baking a baby in the oven" and committing "mass rape" never happened. First, Penn, like Harvard and MIT, is a private institution, and as such it is not bound by the First Amendment. In my experience, Penn has never actually followed the First Amendment, even to a close approximation. The same goes for other amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Penn also does not follow the Second Amendment; if it did, our campus would be a war zone, especially given our apparent embrace of hate speech!Translation: all we have to do to ban "antisemitic" speech is redefine it as "violence!" Universities also have a duty under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to ensure that their campuses do not descend into "hostile environments" that effectively exclude students of ethnic, religious or racial minorities from receiving the benefit of educational programs and activities on campus. In fact, Penn has already been sued by two Jewish students, alleging that the university has become an "incubation lab for virulent anti-Jewish hatred, harassment and discrimination."There you have it. The entire American experiment on free speech needs to come to an end to protect the feelings of Jews and Zionists and shield them from any and all criticism -- all while Israel conducts a genocide of children in Gaza and ethnically cleanses half their population.
Ben Shapiro is now championing Affirmative Action programs for Jews and Breitbart's Joel Pollak is demanding Rep. Thomas Massie be canceled for sharing an "antisemitic" meme! All our rights and freedoms must go and everyone must be canceled so the genocide of children and ethnic cleansing of Gaza can continue unabated! ![]() This is what "Jewish fragility" demands of us! Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Minds and Telegram. |