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The campus censorship of critics of Israel was pushed, egregiously hypocritically, by Harper’s Letter signatory Bari Weiss. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-falsely-denies-her-years-of-attacks-on-the-academic-freedom-of-arab-scholars-who-criticize-israel/ …
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But it is also hypocritical of those Palestinian solidarity activists to (rightly) cry censorship when it happens to them, and then to try to get their conservative opponents shut down.
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A number of academics have even been fired or ‘unhired’ due to their publicly expressed beliefs, for alleged transgressions, or without due process; When they are left-wing, the left will defend them, but not when such profs are right-wing, and vice versa.https://theintercept.com/2017/10/14/drexel-professor-ciccariello-maher-free-speech/ …
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UK municipalities, police and private security firms restrict leafleting, busking, homeless people begging, ball games, ‘inappropriate dress’, and other ‘annoyances’ under such vehicles as Public Space Protection Orders and anti-social behaviour lawshttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47982434 …
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This is not occasional any more, but standard operating procedure. http://manifestoclub.info/briefing-document-buskers-and-homeless-under-threat-from-new-asb-powers/ …
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And whenever there are major international meetings, whatever country, protest is now restricted to “designated protest zones”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone …
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In the last week, what remained of free speech in Hong Kong has been entirely extinguished.
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Western universities meanwhile are beginning to clamp down on criticism of China, lest Beijing dollars dry up. Yet if we criticize this, what leg do we have to stand on?https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/taiwan-files-formal-protest-with-ubc-after-university-listed-it-as-province-of-china …
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