You can read more about this absurdity here: https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/israel-palestine-unc-academic-freedom/ … The instructor, Kylie Broderick - who specializes, to be clear, in Middle East history and so is perfectly qualified to teach it - has some very strong views on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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And I can't say I share all of those strong views. But they are hardly some sort of insane position utterly outside of the realm of debate. And the idea that an official Israeli "diplomat,"
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...grad student instructor, try to use the precarity of her funding and position to silence her is a gross assault on the principles of academic freedom. I am glad UNC held strong & refused to be used in such a shameful way. I only wish they'd used more profanity doing it.
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But hey,
@IsraelMFA - you might want to check up on your diplomats, because one of them is making an ass of herself. And for@RepKManning, who apparently decided to join the pressure campaign against Broderick, what the hell were you thinking?Näytä tämä ketju -
Again, I don't share some of Broderick's views on these points, but academic freedom - and freedom of speech generally - isn't real freedom if it is only extended to views we share. Both principles are the freedom to disagree and to hold unpopular views.
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So it doesn't matter what I think, what matters is that
@AnatSultanDadon and@RepKManning tried to use their power and position to silence legitimate academic activity and speech by a grad. instructor well-qualified to have and express her own views. And they can fuck right off.Näytä tämä ketju
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in limerick form! since broderick's views are quite plain, they mounted a pressure campaign to steer what folks teach sans freedom of speech. the obv'ous response is profane!
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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A BDS supporter crying about an attempted boycott because freedom of speech?pic.twitter.com/JwElaZTALq
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Oh yeah BDS supporters are definitely upset about the Israeli Government's speech rather than policies.
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they are concerned bc she is using language from an antisemitic movement to teach what is presented as a neutral guide to the history of a conflict if she were truly an unbiased anti-imperialist, she would of course see the complexities involved in defining whose homeland it is
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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