Israel Takes On the First Amendment: Free speech except regarding Palestine
I
always enjoy reading the Washington Post each morning even though it
drives my blood pressure up to stratospheric levels. Its embrace of the
inexorability of a fabulous new Camelot-like Clinton White House is
thrilling to witness as it unfolds, but it is the promotion of the
neocon Israeli narrative that is most exciting. On October 23
rd, the op-ed section outdid itself with
a piece
“Free speech is flunking out on campus” by Catherine Rampell, who
described the increasingly sorry state of first amendment rights on
politically correct American university campuses. Blacks, LGBTers, women
and victims of sexual assault were all identified as constituencies
demanding “safe spaces” resulting in curtailment of free speech but
somehow Israel and its supporters screaming anti-Semitism at every drop
of the hat were left out in spite of the fact that Jews on campus have
been both extremely and successfully active in taking political action
to pressure universities whenever they claim to feel “threatened.”
http://www.unz.com/article/israel-takes-on-the-first-amendment/
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