Top British Universities Flunk Free Speech

It is sad that two generations of courageous English men died fighting for freedom in the two world wars. Those now living in the country don't even recognize the history of free speech nor the importance of what it means to free citizens in the western world. People have expressed to me their surprise at the lack of backbone in the British governing political parties and judiciary to protect this treasure that has been gifted to the English speaking world.

What a great role model. Hallowed places of learning that cannot even keep up with just about the most basic right of humanity. What this shows is how academia has selected those with the "correct" politics ahead of more rational staff. Once there are sufficient rotten people in ANY organization, they will ALWAYS select their own until the entire institution is completely rotten to the core with those with dubious ethics. It can start with just one bully. Academia is not the only influential area that has become rotten to the core. What is most interesting is that these infested bodies are always funded with other people's money.

The lack of free speech in Britain is unfortunately difficult to address politically. Politics are usually driven from grass roots upwards - hence people get the governments ( and universities ) they deserve. Anti Israeli sentiment in Britain is unfortunately a majority view. It is as visceral in it's intensity as it is hardened to logic and reason.

I wish I had come up with that but all credit to Iowahawk.

When critical thought, principled analysis and agreement to disagree are not present free inquiry does not exist.

It is insufficient to simply view this as alarming. It heralds a return to a dark age and brings to mind the infamous Salem witch hunt where any semblance of morality and common sense disappeared from human conscience. The implications are so severe that they are impossible to comprehend. It is no more nor less than the emergence of mob rule where the ability to think for oneself completely disappears. God help us.

Is this at all surprising? Of course not. For decades, teachers and lecturers in social and political studies across the academic spectrum have tended to the Left and more often than not, the Far Left. Student debate is therefore powered by its own cabal of proto-Marxists and policy dictated by those who shout loudest and intimidate the most. Moderate voices are not popular on campus. What is surprising is that this Fascist behaviour has not been dealt with years ago by internal self-regulation.

We need to wake up to what is really going on here. Muslim nations are funding the activist organizations at colleges and universities in Western countries. Their activists are well trained in brainwashing and hate incitement towards Jews in general and Israel in particular. They are joined by unthinking leftists who ignore every human rights abuse committed by Muslim organizations (including blatant terrorist ones) and Muslim nations and only want to hurl abuse at the only democracy in the Middle East. The institutions which were created for higher learning are just letting this go on for reasons I do not understand. This undermines the entire point of the institutions and creates a very hostile atmosphere on campus. Not having an unbiased intellectual staff of professors is especially dangerous and encourages hate speech.

The new Jews in Israel sought to break away from Diaspora Judaism by being free, independent, self reliant, self defending. Being a nation among the nations would surely disprove all antisemitic canards. How wrong they were. Now it is Diaspora Jews who hope to dissociate themselves from Israel, the biggest attractant of antisemitic sentiment in the world due to its self-defense, self reliance, independence and freedom. "Progressive" academia is wholly infused with such Diasporic Jews who know their only way to retain their privilege is to denounce the Jews, of Israel.

Typical of elitist left wing thinking with too little knowledge of serious history and the evolution of nations in the last 1400 years.

Universities from a long time were renowned champions of freedom & enlightenment. To day it is the reverse adding in the Hitler Hate doctrine a reactionary mix. Alas, where to Universities of the world, relentlessly back to the dark ages.

By boycotting Israeli academic institutions and, in particular, the School of Oriental and African Studies, they will be left without a true picture of this part of the world. Will these same people boycott life-saving medical advances that Israel is working on or refuse the use of medical appliances which Israel has invented?

Shame on Britain, this insidious political correctness has gone too far.
The government has gone too far, bending over backwards to protect certain minority groups from being criticized. Certain groups have infiltrated the government and are pulling the strings of a democratically elected government. Free speech is fundamental to democracy.

I am willing to bet that the visceral hatred of Israel has grown exponentially in Western universities, with the increase of Muslim immigrants. Islam is a disease that will choke the world if it is not stopped, just as it has choked civilized society throughout the Middle East, where it thrives in its most basic format.

What difference does it make what we call it --- Antisemitism, Totalitarianism, Free Speech censoring, or boycotting Israel and Israeli students. At the end it all amounts to the same sad results --- THE END TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION, AS WE KNOW IT. This article brought tears to my eyes. G-D HELP US.

It has always been the policy of the enemy of our souls to target young people and deceive them when they are gullible. That is why the Arab states and local but predominantly Islamic radical enemies of Israel create a history narrative that is full of lies and fantasy. A re-written history that casts doubt on the truth will fill the empty minds of young people with what they the Islamics want them to believe no matter how absurd when one is aware of the truth. The picture of Israel painted by these radicals is one of an oppressive, apartheid, non-democratic, land grabbing and to-the-core evil country. When in actual fact they, the fabricators of the false narrative are themselves precisely what they accuse Israel of being. It's amazing to me how Professors and Lecturers actually jump in as supposedly educated people and add credence to the lies and try to silence the truth. Freedom of speech should work for everyone not just for anti-Semites. incitement and violence to silence freedom of speech needs to punished severely. Most countries have lost control and are unable to enforce the law when it comes to anti-Semitism.

Would this be happening if the people calling for the destruction of Israel and the murder of all Jews were, say, Brazilians, or Icelanders? Most certainly not. They would be rightly labelled, racist, psychopaths. So why do Muslims get free rein to demonize the only successful country in the Middle East?