A boring week in free speechery, on campus and beyond! (lol, no)

Bringing you the latest free speech news (4/28/2024)

Stories of the week

• I spoke with CBS Mornings about the recent explosion of anti-Israel political demonstrations happening on college campuses and how campuses need to be a “citadel of self reflection.”

• German police forbid ‘speaking Irish’ at Berlin protest — Free Speech Dispatch April 2024 by Sarah McLaughlin

This week in ERI

• ‘Hypocrisy projection,’ civil disobedience at Columbia and beyond, and how Texas got it wrong

Columbia faculty members formed a chain to keep journalists out of the encampment. (Image by Zach Kessel)

FIRE in the press!

• Rushdie’s Triumph (Air Mail, pay-walled) by FIRE Senior Fellow

  James Kirchick

• Forced patriotism, whether in Hong Kong or Louisiana, is no patriotism at all (The Hill) by FIRE Senior Scholar of Global Expression Sarah McLaughlin

International free speech stories of the week

• Iran sentences rapper Toomaj Salehi to death over 2022-2023 arrest, lawyer tells paper (Reuters)

This week on ‘So To Speak’

• W. Wat Hopkins, professor emeritus of communications at Virginia Tech, joined

  So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
  this week to talk with host
  Nico Perrino
  about his new book, “Hate Speech is Not Free: The Case Against First Amendment Protection.”

This week in FIRE’s blog

• Texas tramples First Amendment rights with police crackdown of pro-Palestinian protests by

  Angel Eduardo

• Here’s what students need to know about protesting on campus right now

• Kansas takes a stand for intellectual freedom by Tyler Coward

• TikTok legislation sets grave precedent for free speech

• FIRE statement on campus violence and arrests

Interview of the month

• Flashback to when ERI contributor

  Angel Eduardo
  interviewed
  Salomé Sibonex
  at FreedomFest about “Free Speech and Finding Yourself”