Support Academic Freedom at CUNY

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   Name: Jason Farbman on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: Allen Ruff on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: William A Edmundson on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: Nick Gamso on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: Irina Kalinka on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: Maggie Clinton on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: Moti Gorin on Feb 4, 2013

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   Name: Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli on Feb 4, 2013

   Comments: I strongly disagree with the views of BDS, but support the decision of the Brooklyn College Political Science department to continue to sponsor this event. Academic freedom means that academic merit is the only limitation on scholarly expression, and it is to be debated and decided upon by scholars using scholarly methods and standards, not by outside groups.

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   Name: Daniel Kato on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: David Roediger on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Darryl Li, Columbia University on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Joseph Tan on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Anna O. Law on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Mike Bertrand on Feb 4, 2013

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15. 415
    Name: Neil Easterbrook on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: Professor of English Texas Christian University Fort Worth TX

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    Name: Anne Silver on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Andrew Conte on Feb 4, 2013

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18. 418
    Name: Michael Kates on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer Program in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law University of Virginia

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    Name: Bill Mullen on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Jodi Dean on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Alex Sayf Cummings on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: Threats and intimidation are repugnant to academic freedom and have NO PLACE in an open society

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22. 422
    Name: Wadood Hamad on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Greg Shupak on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Noushin Framke on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Jennifer Morton on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: David Walters on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Dr Laleh Khalili on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Dave Florey on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: It is inexcusable for politicians to limit academic discussion of the Israel–Palestine conflict in this fashion. To say "I only want both sides to be heard" as some have done is myopic and misguided at the least, if not hypocritical. Would we put the same demand on advocates of the status quo, that is, support for Israel's unilateral "roadmap" which has so far involved the wholesale destruction of Palestinian infrastructure (such as it is) and cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians, as documented, among other places, in the Goldstone Report? These same figures would never ask a supporter of Israel to grant equal time to an advocate of the Palestinian right of return, or a scholar who argues that Israel cannot both be a democracy and constantly lament what its leaders call the "demographic threat" of Palestinian lives. The fact that the demand for equal time is not applied in all circumstances--only to circumstances in which Israel's policies are brought into question--shows that equal time is not the issue at all. In fact this is a political attack, and should not be tolerated by any members of the academic community.

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29. 429
    Name: Matthew Shafer on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: Yale College 2013, Yale University

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30. 430
    Name: John Collins on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Noa Shaindlinger on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Andrew Hsiao on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Jennifer Varela on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Catherine Hodes on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: How dare our elected officials attempt to interfere with academic freedom in our city's university. As a Jewish woman, social worker, Hunter graduate, parent, and native New Yorker, I stand sgtrongly in favor of this panel and program going forward unmolested.

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    Name: Kate Ramsey on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Elizabeth Roberts on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Lisa Hajjar on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Anthony Skelton on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Elizabeth Dauphinee on Feb 4, 2013

    Comments: We recently experienced a similar situation at York University in Toronto with regard to a conference that sought to explore a range of peace proposals for the Israel/Palestine conflict, including both one- and two-state solutions. Some prominent faculty and senior administrators attempted to shut down the conference, and even intervened with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in an attempt to shut the event down. An independent report commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers detailed the events and actions of senior administrators and their attempts to curtail academic freedom. The report is on the public record: Jon Thompson, 'No Debate'. This is also reminiscent of the recent attempts to shut down the entire Political Science department at Ben Gurion University, a move which the American Political Science Association condemned in no uncertain terms. As a Political Science professor who relies on academic freedom to write, teach, publish, and contribute to public debate, it is unacceptable that government at any level attempt to interfere with the freedom that is supposed to lie at the core of academic freedoms in universities located in democratic states. The New York City Council needs to take a long hard look at their actions and understand that any demand to silence academic freedom in its jurisdiction is a betrayal of what it means to be a democratic institution. These councillors should avail themselves of literature surrounding academic freedom, its history, and its hard-won battles under draconian and politicized administration. The job of a university or college is to create a safe environment for the expression of academic freedom on behalf of its professors and students. If it cannot do this, it must call itself something else. But not a university or college in a democratic state. You will see from the CAUT report mentioned above that even adding the 'balanced' voice was not enough to prevent the continued intimidation and harassment of the professors who organized the conference. I urge CUNY and the New York City Council to think very seriously about what their politicized actions might mean for academic freedom in the United States.

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    Name: Jordan McIntyre on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Amahl Bishara on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Tarek Z Ismail on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Todd Shepard on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Itamar Mann on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Hannah Simpson on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Scott Muldoon on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Daniel Reitz on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Trish Tchume on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Sarah Waheed on Feb 4, 2013

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    Name: Stephen Henighan on Feb 4, 2013

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