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The presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn were accused of failing to explicitly say that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their colleges’ bullying and harrassment codes

Controversy around Elise Stefanik's antisemitism hearing fueled by "hypocrisy" and PR concerns, say legal experts

Liz Magill and two other university leaders provoked bipartisan outrage by defending freedom of expression on campus.

If a student were to walk off the Harvard campus and onto a street in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and argue for the genocide of Jews, the U.S. Constitution would bar prosecuting her for hate speech.

The presidents were asked about non-existent calls for genocide on American campuses, while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored

The presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn were accused of failing to explicitly say that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their colleges’ bullying and harrassment codes

Will Creeley (FIRE) and I have this L.A. Times opinion piece today. I doubt our readers will find anything new here (it's based on FIRE's past work explaining free speech, and on my posts about the absence of any exception for advocacy of genocide), but I thought I'd pass it…

Addressing the Doha Forum, Ayman Safadi says Israel’s operation in Gaza meets the ‘legal definition of genocide’.

Readers respond to Howard Jacobson’s article in last week’s Observer

Elizabeth Magill faced backlash after failing to say calling for genocide against Jews would violate university policy.

The University of Pennsylvania’s President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy