There's a new website promising to 'monitor' all the silly, vaguely anti-semitic stuff that goes on at Berkeley and other campuses. Predictably, all the Professors or GSIs it goes after for stifling freedom of speech accuse it of... stifling free speech!

"(Campus Watch) doesn't pretend to be a debate or conversation," Shingavi said. "It just says these professors are a problem."

"If they produce blacklists of individuals then this is a very dangerous development that will affect people outside the circles of Middle East (scholars) eventually," said history professor Beshara Doumani. "It is designed to harass and intimidate free speech, and it should be a concern to anyone who values academic freedom."

Silly Professors, blacklists are for Governments. This is a media and activist outlet, and the idea that it equates a 'blacklist' is an insult to the Professors that faced real Blacklists back in the day. Snehal is being facetious, as well. His own organizations aren't about 'debates' and 'conversations;' why should the opposition live up to a standard he sets but doesn't care about?

Not to mention that CampusWatch does nothing but link to legitimate news organizations' reports on the controversies-- reports that almost always include the opposite side to the debate.


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