Anti-Israel Activists Object to New Protest Rules on College Campuses
“Last spring, pro-Palestinian tent encampments crowded schools and disrupted commencement plans, drawing accusations of antisemitism and prompting new limits.”
The left, including the liberal media, is suddenly very concerned about free speech on campus. What a surprise.
PBS Reports:
University faculty members push back on new campus protest rules
Dissent is thriving this fall at American colleges, and not just among student activists. With student protests limited by new restrictions, faculty have taken up the cause.
To faculty, new protest rules threaten freedom of speech — and the freedom to think, both central to university life. This semester, some of the most visible demonstrations have involved professors speaking up for the right to protest itself.
Last spring, pro-Palestinian tent encampments crowded schools and disrupted commencement plans, drawing accusations of antisemitism and prompting new limits.
At Indiana University, an “expressive activity policy” rolled out in August prohibits protests after 11 p.m., bans camping on campus, and requires pre-approval for signs. In defiance, each Sunday a group of faculty members, students and community members gather on campus for candlelight vigils that extend past the 11 p.m. deadline.
Russ Skiba, a professor emeritus who has attended the vigils, said the new restrictions are part of a larger movement to limit academic freedom on campuses.
In Indiana, the Republican governor in March signed a law increasing state oversight of public universities. The law, sponsored by a lawmaker who said colleges suffer from “monolithic thinking,” subjects faculty to post-tenure reviews over whether they are fostering diversity of thought and keeping their political views out of the classroom. Skiba and other Indiana professors widely opposed the bill, which they criticized as vague and subject to interpretation.
“Universities are bastions of free speech, but when you have a movement that is anti-democratic, one of the places that is most attacked is freedom of speech,” Skiba said.
Faculty members at colleges elsewhere around the country have pushed back on the new rules with protests, vigils and demands for explanation.
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Stuff and nonsense.
That’s all that this is.
Wake up, people.
There is YUUUGE money to be made for American colleges and universities that cater to:
— anti-Liberty
— anti-Israel
— anti-Christianity
— etc.
Even if Hamas Hizb’Allah is turned back in parts of Middle East, it will not be turned back in the USA. It can not be.
No matter who the president is.
So, most American families must accept reality, and adapt.
The vast majority of American families should stop wasting time and money at the vast majority of American colleges and Universities — including Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, etc.
The vast majority of American teens need to focus on preparing for an America in which you are basically no longer welcome in America. You must become fluent in another language, and you should aspire to attend college in that foreign language, in that foreign country.
Grow up.
College administrators are not paid to watch out for y o u r interests. They’re paid to watch out for their own college’s interests.
Look around the world: Korea. Thailand. Japan. Philippines, Taiwan. Israel (where you can learn Hebrew or Arabic, or Russian too). Argentina. Maybe Vietnam idk.
It’s not the 20th century any more.
Deal with it.
So the antisemites are now concerned about free speech being curtailed? Has the shoe swapped feet?
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The university can’t bar protests just because the speakers and their message(s) are antisemitic, offensive, and distasteful. They can enact policies that restrict when, where, and how, protests or demonstrations can take place, so long as the restrictions are reasonable and apply equally to everyone.
It seems to me that the faculty and students objecting to the rules just want to be able to be loud, obnoxious, disruptive, and unruly.