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Top British
Universities Flunk Free Speech
by Peter Martino
• April 14, 2015 at 5:00 am
The
universities were ranked using a traffic-light system: red for universities
that ban and actively censor certain ideas on campus; amber for universities
that chill free speech, and green for universities that have a hands-off approach
to free speech.
The
results of the Free Speech University Rankings were staggering. Forty-seven
universities were marked red, including Oxford and the London School of
Economics; 45 were marked amber, including Cambridge, and a mere 25 were
marked green. Results indicate that 80% of British universities censor free
speech.
Stifling
free speech on campus is no longer restricted to Britain; it can be seen all
over the world, including in the U.S.
"Campus
censorship is something which can no longer be laughed off. Free thought
itself is under attack." — Tom Slater, assistant editor at Spiked
Online, Daily Telegraph.
"Supporting
Israel is now labeled an act of 'racism' by some professors and certain
campus organizations." — Daniel Mael, Senior, Brandeis University, U.S.
Freedom
of speech is one of the fundamental values of our Judeo-Christian
civilization. The day we give away free speech -- or Israel, which embodies
it -- is the day we cease to exist.
At Manchester University in April of 2010, Israel's deputy ambassador to
the UK, Talya Lador-Fresher, was violently attacked. Demonstrators climbed
the hood of her car and attempted to smash the windscreen before the police
were able to escort her to safety.
Again, in February of 2013, this time at the University of Essex in
Colchester, Britain, during a debate on the situation in the Middle East,
authorities ordered the evacuation from campus of her successor, Israel's
deputy ambassador to the UK, Alon Roth-Snir. A group of hostile students
disrupted the debate; university authorities said they could not protect his
safety.
Turkey and
Iran: Theater of Make Believe
by Burak Bekdil
• April 14, 2015 at 4:00 am
The
(neo-) Ottoman-Persian theater looks exceptional at deception,
self-deception, counter-deception, attempted deception and failed deception.
Lovely!
In half a decade, the two brotherly countries had progressed spectacularly
from "We need to establish peace in the region" to "We have to
put an end to this bloodshed."
Erdogan,
who hand-in-hand with Rouhani smiled to the cameras in Tehran, only the week
before had said that Turkey would not tolerate Iran dominating the Middle
East (read: only the Sunnis can dominate the Middle East, preferably the
Turks).
Time passes quickly; but most scripts at the political musicals of the
Middle Eastern theaters remain stubbornly unchanged. The (neo-)
Ottoman-Persian theater looks exceptional at deception, self-deception,
counter-deception, attempted deception and failed deception: At least the
Saudis and Iranians do not embrace and kiss each other while fighting several
proxy wars in different theaters of the Middle East.
The complication on the Turkish-Iranian axis has several reasons, none
of which is easily comprehensible to the Western mind: Turkey's Sunni
Islamists believe that they can always fool their Shiite Iranian
"brothers" by smiling to their faces, by standing by them against
the Christendom, and by championing the Palestinian cause -- while playing
games behind their backs. In return, the Iranians privately smile and think
that the not-so-smart Turks are just trying to play backgammon while they,
meanwhile, calculate gambit after gambit on a chessboard.
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