[Peace-discuss] #occupy YomHaShoah?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Far too many university presidents & administrators seem to think that they have the right to 'permit' or 'allow' free speech. 

I thought this matter was decided 50 years ago at Berkeley. The Obama years seem to present a reversal.

On 3 May 1970, Ohio Governor Rhodes told a press conference that antiwar protesters were “worse than the brown shirts and the communist element and also the night riders and the vigilantes. They’re the worst type of people that we harbor in America..."

44 years ago today, he acted on his views. The Ohio National guard killed killed four students and wounded nine. Rhodes was never prosecuted.  

Elected officials and state functionaries cannot be allowed to suppress free speech. --CGE


On May 4, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> So, this university administrator was disinvited from participating in a Holocaust day remembrance event because he followed a legal opinion that told him that he had to allow an Israel Apartheid Week event to take place on campus. You know, that whole free speech thing. In case anyone cares about that.
> 
> I'm thinking, if the Zionist establishment is going to play like this, we may have to #occupy YomHaShoah. Let's see how they like that.
> 
> http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/29/a-wakeup-call-winnipeg-synagogue-disinvites-university-president-after-he-permitted-israel-apartheid-week/
> 
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