President’s actions will further isolate Jewish people | Opinion
The president’s executive order purports to address anti-Semitism on college campuses, but a lot of confusion and ambiguity remains about its meaning and impact.
As a 120-year-old organization that has actively battled anti-Semitism and hatred in all its forms, the Workers Circle is clear on one thing: censoring free speech is not the antidote to anti-Semitism. At the Workers Circle, we promote freedom of expression as an essential part of a healthy society. Just as we believe critiquing American policy does not diminish your patriotism, we vehemently reject the idea that if you express opposition to Israeli government policies, you are an anti-Semite. On those occasions when opposition to Israeli policies and to Zionism crosses the line into anti-Semitism, we have and will continue to call out those statements for what they are.
We know that when free speech is censored, evidenced-based arguments get stifled while hate speech merely retreats to the dark corners of the internet and behind closed doors where we have less ability to monitor it and safeguard ourselves from its dangers.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.