{"id":5357,"date":"2023-12-09T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:37:21","slug":"the-latest-victims-of-the-free-speech-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/09\/the-latest-victims-of-the-free-speech-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Victims of the Free-Speech Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the issue of free speech on college campuses has received a new wave of scrutiny. Palestinian student groups have faced threats of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/10\/10\/psc-statement-backlash\/\">censorship<\/a>&nbsp;for their statements, donors have warned about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/19\/business\/harvard-upenn-donors-israel\/index.html\">pulling funding<\/a>, and employers have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/oct\/18\/student-palestine-letter-harvard-columbia-us-law-firm-jobs-revoked\">blacklisted<\/a>&nbsp;students who blamed Israel for Hamas\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as far as free speech is concerned, 2023 has been a relatively normal year for colleges and universities. Just don\u2019t confuse \u201cnormal\u201d with \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protecting free speech requires defending the rights of both sides of any conflict. That will only get harder if we ignore just how long colleges have been falling short. Today\u2019s headlines can distract from the fact that campuses have been in crisis for the better part of a decade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/11\/pro-palestine-speech-college-campuses\/676155\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/11\/pro-palestine-speech-college-campuses\/676155\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the issue of free speech on college campuses has received a new wave of scrutiny. Palestinian student groups have faced threats of&nbsp;censorship&nbsp;for their statements, donors have warned about&nbsp;pulling funding, and employers have&nbsp;blacklisted&nbsp;students who blamed Israel for Hamas\u2019s attack. But as far as free speech is concerned, 2023 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}