by Steve Ganot
CAMERA on Campus director Aviva Slomich speaks with Steve Ganot about safe spaces • What are safe spaces and how are they used to silence pro-Israel views? • Do Zionist activists use the concept to suppress views they oppose, such as support of BDS?
CAMERA International Campus Director Aviva Slomich
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College campuses in North America and the U.K. often provide "safe spaces" -- places where students can speak and act freely, without being subject to intolerance, discrimination or harassment based on their racial, ethnic, religious or sexual identities.
Protecting students from hate speech may seem like a worthy goal, but abuse of the safe-space concept has been criticized for coddling students, chilling free speech and protecting some ideas at the expense of others. It and other concepts increasingly popular on college campuses, such as trigger warnings, microaggressions, no platform, and intersectionality, are seen by some observers as reflecting an excessive political correctness that is antithetical to critical thinking.
According to Zionist activists on many campuses, such ideas are often wielded by their opponents as tools of intimidation, suppressing the expression of pro-Israel sentiments while shielding the beliefs of anti-Zionists from criticism.
In this episode of Israel Hayom Insider, Aviva Slomich, the international campus director of CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, speaks with Opinion Editor Steve Ganot about the increasing use of safe space and related concepts to silence pro-Israel views.
Steve Ganot
Source: www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=38079
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