Yale’s Case Study in Free-Speech Hypocrisy

The university and a professor invoke freedom of speech to protect anti-Israel comments, while throwing that principle under the bus when it’s inconvenient.

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Left: Yale campus. Right: Associate Professor Zareena Grewal.

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Even at Yale, it is not every day that a faculty member expresses “solidarity” — and apparent glee — over the murder, rape, and kidnapping of civilians.

So it did not go unnoticed when, as Israel was reeling from the deadliest terror attack in its history, associate professor Zareena Grewal proclaimed on X that “Palestinians have every right to resist through armed struggle” against a “genocidal settler state.” She also circulated a video of the onslaught captioned, “It’s been such an extraordinary day!”

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Lauren Noble

Lauren Noble is the founder and executive director of the Buckley Institute.

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