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Opinion | Academic Freedom and the Israel-Gaza War
  + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “Political Dissent Is Under Attack on Campus,” by Paula Chakravartty and Vasuki Nesiah (Opinion guest essay, April 8):As an N.Y.U. it is solely the Palestinian voice in the complex tragedy that is being suppressed. Academic freedom requires academic responsibility, which is lacking when it is suggested that the suffering of the Palestinian people is the only acceptable topic for outrage, and it is assumed that sufficient balance is provided by a single sentence noting opposition to antisemitism. Academic freedom must be earned every day through a commitment to promoting discussion from multiple points of view and sources. That freedom, already under attack, will be lost when the public perceives that it serves only one side.
Persons: Paula Chakravartty, Vasuki Nesiah Organizations: Israel Locations: N.Y.U
​At New York University, the spring semester began with a poetry reading. Students and faculty gathered in the atrium of Bobst Library. At that time, about twenty six thousand Palestinians had already been killed in Israel’s horrific war on Gaza; the reading was a collective act of bearing witness. Afterward, we learned that students and faculty members were called into disciplinary meetings for participating in this apparently “disruptive” act; written warnings were issued. Over the past six months, since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, we have seen the university administration fail to adequately protect dissent on campus, actively squelching it instead.
Persons: Refaat Alareer, Organizations: New York University Locations: Gaza, Palestinian
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