Posts Tagged: freedom of speech
Jewish Ambivalence About Fighting Antisemitism
JNS.org - Jews have long been champions of freedom of speech in the United States, yet they often have not hesitated to advocate canceling speakers...
War, Antisemitism and Free Speech: A Critical Dilemma
JNS.org - Should governments and public institutions take punitive measures against groups or individuals who promote antisemitism through such measures as cutting funding, criminalizing aspects...
Five Years on, France to Try Suspects in Charlie Hebdo Killings
Fourteen suspected accomplices to the French Islamist militants behind the 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris will...
Why Do We Let Antisemites Define Antisemitism?
In the US, we don't hear much positive news about how Jews and Israel are treated on college campuses in the United Kingdom. In fact, we mostly...
Is Facebook Two-Faced?
What was supposed to be a forum for expression has become a platform of suppression. This is the fourth time I’ve been banned from Facebook for...
Iranian Arabic-Language Network Claims Holocaust Cartoon Contest ‘Enhances’ Freedom of Speech
An Iranian television news report about the country’s current Holocaust cartoon contest described how one section was “dedicated to drawings of people like Hitler and [Prime...
German Minister Slams Facebook for Enabling Holocaust Denial, Racial Incitement
Germany's Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection attacked social media giant Facebook for allowing the circulation of Holocaust denial, Israel's Channel 2 reported on Sunday. Minister Heiko Maas...
Dershowitz: Universities Should be Unsafe for Political Correctness
The current code word being tossed around to protect political correctness from competition in the marketplace of ideas is "unsafe." "I feel unsafe" has become the...
Legal Advocacy Group Releases Video Warning of Islamist Danger to Free Speech (VIDEO)
The legal advocacy group Lawfare Project has released a 4-minute video that cites examples of the Islamist threat to free speech. The clip, titled "Your Free...
Abbas Cracks Down on Journalists Despite Promises
Times of Israel - Mahmoud Abbas' government in the West Bank is getting tougher with critics, interrogating, prosecuting and even jailing several journalists...
There is No Freedom of Expression for Palestinians
This article was originally published by the Gatestone Institute In another story the Western media apparently refuses to cover, any Palestinian who dares to criticize ...
Does Brooklyn College Pass the “Shoe on the Other Foot” Test?
The decision by the Brooklyn College political science department to endorse the BDS movement—which includes the boycotting of Jewish-Israeli academics—has been "justified" on freedom of...
Brooklyn College Political Science Department Denies Equal Free Speech and Academic Freedom to Pro-Israel Students and Faculty
The international campaign to delegitimate Israel by subjecting the Jewish state—and the Jewish State alone—to boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has now come to the most...
Left and Right United: Extreme Leftists and Islamists
Extremes meet. The most irrational example may be the unofficial alliance between extreme leftists and Islamists. Marxism and Islam have been de facto allies at...
