No Justice, No Speech! Free Speech and the Place that Shall Not Be Named

Undergraduate / Graduate

Are there-or should there be-limits to free speech? What is the relationship between free speech and hate speech? Does speech deserve special kinds of protections (or limits) in the context of the university campus? In this course, we will critically engage with these questions as they relate to political organizing and political expression on (and in) P________. Our course will examine these foundational questions before turning to some of the sticking points in the debate over free speech and P________ today: What is freedom of expression in I_____-P________, and what does it have to do with the politics of US campuses? What is the call for Boycott Divest and Sanctions, and is it intended to foster or limit academic freedom? Is anti-Z______ anti-S______? To consider these questions, we will do critical readings of primary texts such as the guidelines issued by PACBI (P__________ Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of I_____) and the definition of anti-S_______ issued by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), as well as ethnographic and other accounts of the problem of political expression in P________ today.