On Tuesday afternoon an Israeli academic was shouted down by two dozen protesters as he tried to begin a lecture before about 100 students and faculty at the University of Minnesota. The speaker was Moshe Halbertal, a professor at NYU Law School and a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew University.
Dr Halbertal had been invited by the university to give the lecture, and after the disruption, he was able to proceed.
The gang of protestors bragged about it.
Today, this apologist for Zionist war crimes spoke only sporadically, as his lies were interrupted again and again by protesters who refused to listen to his anti-Palestinian hate speech.
And not only that. This gang did their best to deny everyone else their right to listen to the speech. The right of those others to determine for themselves what they will listen to is strictly in the hands of this gang. Free speech, according to these, is limited to the freedom to speak or to hear only that which these personally approve.
The silence of the rest of the Left—not even the Star Tribune, a newspaper local to the region, spent any column inches on the thing—is clear: the Left as a whole agrees with this view that only speech of which the Left approves may be freely spoken.
Many of the gang of protesters are members, or allied with, the “Ant-War Committee”, which is a recruiting arm of “Freedom Road Socialist Organization” (FRSO). Their declared goal, as stated on their website, is as a Marxist-Leninist political organization, to overthrow the United States Government via violent revolution.