The Clash of Safety and Free Speech in Academia

On the right to protest.

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Contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talks to Alex H and George about restrictions on speech and protest at US universities and beyond – particularly with regard to Palestine solidarity demonstrations.

• How have uni administrators not just undermined by seemingly attacked the right to protest?

• Why is Trump going after the universities this way?

• How have progressives undermined the right of protest by talking up the role of 'harm'?

• How have pro-Israel groups been complicit in treating political speech as an attack on identities?

• Why have so many authorities chosen the defence of Israel as their hill to die on?

Links:

• The Right to Be Hostile, Alex Gourevitch, Boston Review

• /409/ Palestine, Protest, Repression: The Wider Context