Shots in the Dark
Thursday, 08 November
No Free Speech at Harvard?
by That's what Professor J. Lorand Matory thinks, and as a result, he's raising a motion at the next faculty meeting to "explicitly embrace free speech at Harvard," as the Crimson puts it.
[Matory] argued in [a] September op-ed that those who question Zionism and Israeli policy toward Palestine “tremble in fear” of the backlash that would result from voicing their opinions.
“My colleagues are urging me to bring forward a resolution [to the Faculty meeting] in support of free speech,” he said. “I want for us to be able to talk openly. If there is fear and pain, it should be expressed.”
Matory has, of course, been outspoken on Israeli-Palestinian issues, so the most vocal pro-Israel members of the faculty are skeptical about this motion. Alan Dershowitz challenges Matory to a duel (well, not really), and Ruth Wisse says...
“This is a bogus issue. There is an agenda here and free speech is not it.”
What would Walt & Mearsheimer say?
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