free press journalist Eli Lake He said anti-Israel activists who have been causing trouble on college campuses have been “enemies of free speech” for several years. fox news digital.
Regarding these anti-Israel demonstrators, Lake said:[s]Setting up an encampment in the middle of the Quad or occupying a building and allowing Zionist students and professors to enter without quoting the word “encampment” is not free speech. . ”
“That’s discrimination,” Lake continued. “You could call this civil disobedience, but it’s not a free speech issue.”
“So I think one of the problems is that there’s not really a balance in how the Middle East and this conflict has been taught. So I think that’s why professors are teaching this kind of insane radicalism. Part of the reason is that we have been encouraging…”
Lake went on to say that the same anti-Israel activists who say their free speech is being curtailed have publicly banned certain people from accessing the camps and complained about people invited to speak on campus. He suggested that he would say.
“It’s an insult to our intelligence to take these people’s arguments as if they were fighting for free speech when we just discovered that principle five minutes ago.”
“Don’t drag free speech into that. I wasn’t born yesterday and I know you’ve been an enemy of free speech for the past 10 years. So don’t drag free speech into this. Stop making it a haven for ‘anti-Semites,'” Lake continued.
lake gave a speech Dissident dialogue At a festival in New York City earlier this month, he acknowledged that some activists may be genuinely angry after seeing the leaked footage from Gaza. But he said anti-Israel bias on college campuses is part of a decades-long indoctrination campaign.
“There are two generations of professors who have taught the history of this region, and they are activists and traditional far-left activists. [the late Palestinian-American professor] Edward said,” Lake said.
“And I have no problem teaching Edward Said But Edward Said’s approach has been taught on these campuses to the exclusion of the schools of historians they attack. [the late British-American professor] Bernard Lewis. ”
“So one of the problems is that there’s not really a balance in how the Middle East and this conflict has been taught, and so professors are teaching about this kind of crazy radicalism and also… I think we’ve encouraged the delusion that somehow we can make the state of Israel disappear, but that’s not going to happen. ”
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