Universities are now at the center of societal debates about Islamophobia, antisemitism, and freedom of expression. Antisemitism and Islamophobia are real. Increasingly, however, voicing support for Palestinians is cast as antisemitism or as a form of support for terrorism. This panel examines the controversy from a critical perspective. What are the limits of pro-Palestinian speech? And what do the constraints on pro-Palestine speech on campus portend for intellectual inquiry and research more generally?
Peter Beinart (Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY) and Sahar Aziz (Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers) will be featured as event panelists, and Asifa Quraishi-Landes (Professor of Law at UW-Madison) will moderate the discussion.
This University of Wisconsin Law School event is made possible with help from the following sponsors: Human Rights Program, Middle East Studies Program, Center for Law, Society and Justice, IRIS NRC, Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, English Department, Center for Interfaith Dialogue, Center for Humanities, Geography Department, and WI Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue.
