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BBC urged to drop UK Eurovision entrant Olly Alexander for accusing Israel of 'genocide' in Gaza

Olly Alexander has sparked a backlash after signing an open letter condemning Israel as an 'apartheid regime'

Evening Standard

French court jails former Rwandan doctor over 1994 genocide

Former Rwandan doctor Sosthene Munyemana was on Wednesday jailed for 24 years by a French court for his involvement in the 1994 Tutsi genocide.

Radio France Internationale

A Rwandan doctor gets 24-year prison sentence in France for his role in the 1994 genocide

A Rwandan doctor has been sentenced by a Paris court to 24 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country

The Independent UK

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French Court Jails Rwandan Ex-doctor 24 Years Over 1994 Genocide

A French court on Wednesday sentenced former Rwandan doctor Sosthene Munyemana to 24 years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in his native East African country.

International Business Times

A Rwandan doctor in France faces 30 years in prison for alleged role in his country's 1994 genocide

A French court is expected to rule Tuesday on charges against a Rwandan doctor for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country

The Independent UK

Pakistan: Protesters to resume long march to Islamabad against extrajudicial killings in Balochistan

The Balochistan Yakjehti Council will continue its long march against alleged genocide by Pakistani forces on people of Balcohistan after it called of a sit-in at Dera Gazi Khan on Monday night. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

‘No place for genocide’: Qatar football fans stand for Gaza against Israel

Thousands of football fans gather to help raise funds and show solidarity with the people of Gaza, amid Israel’s war.

Al Jazeera

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My evil Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough haunted me in a way I haven’t felt since Undertale

My evil Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough made me feel truly immoral in a way I’ve not felt since indie classic Undertale.

TechRadar

US Yazidis sue France’s Lafarge for aiding ISIL violence

The French cement maker is accused of abetting violence and terrorism by providing supplies for tunnels and prisons.

Al Jazeera

Students left silenced by speech debates

It may seem nonsensical to say that calls for genocide are protected speech but colleges are in a tough spot

Salon

OPINION - Harvard's Claudine Gay saga shows how the poison of cancel culture has infected US universities

If you wanted to sum up the near parodic state of liberal academia in the US, the response of the then president of Pennsylvania University, Elizabeth McGill, to a question about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated its rules on harassment, would do the job nicely. “It’s a…

Evening Standard

Israel-Gaza war on US campuses: Why are top university leaders under fire?

A congressional hearing on anti-Semitism has shone a spotlight on the tensions between free speech and campus safety.

Al Jazeera

Academic freedom is the loser when big donors hound US university presidents

The leaders of Harvard, Penn and MIT should have clearly condemned calls for genocide but the response has been almost as repugnant

The Guardian - US

What’s behind the antisemitism furor over college presidents’ testimony?

Backlash against presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT has led to one resignation and implications for free speech on campus

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The Independent UK

SNL divides viewers with cold open mocking college presidents’ antisemitism hearing

The presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn were accused of failing to explicitly say that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their colleges’ bullying and harrassment codes

Salon

Experts: Why "speech we hate" matters

Controversy around Elise Stefanik's antisemitism hearing fueled by "hypocrisy" and PR concerns, say legal experts

Reason

After Resisting Demands To Punish 'Hate Speech,' Penn's President Capitulated. It Did Not Save Her Job.

Liz Magill and two other university leaders provoked bipartisan outrage by defending freedom of expression on campus.

The Conversation

Why university presidents find it hard to punish advocating genocide − college free speech codes are both more and less protective than the First Amendment

If a student were to walk off the Harvard campus and onto a street in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and argue for the genocide of Jews, the U.S. Constitution would bar prosecuting her for hate speech.

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The Guardian - US

The Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress

The presidents were asked about non-existent calls for genocide on American campuses, while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored

The Independent UK

SNL divides viewers with cold open mocking college presidents’ antisemitism hearing

The presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn were accused of failing to explicitly say that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their colleges’ bullying and harrassment codes

Reason

"The Trouble with Congress or College Presidents Policing Free Speech on Campuses"

Will Creeley (FIRE) and I have this L.A. Times opinion piece today. I doubt our readers will find anything new here (it's based on FIRE's past work explaining free speech, and on my posts about the absence of any exception for advocacy of genocide), but I thought I'd pass it…

Al Jazeera

Jordan’s foreign minister says Israel aiming ‘to empty Gaza of its people’

Addressing the Doha Forum, Ayman Safadi says Israel’s operation in Gaza meets the ‘legal definition of genocide’.

The Guardian - UK

If this is not genocide, what is it?

Readers respond to Howard Jacobson’s article in last week’s Observer

Al Jazeera

University of Pennsylvania president quits after anti-Semitism uproar

Elizabeth Magill faced backlash after failing to say calling for genocide against Jews would violate university policy.

The Independent UK

UPenn president resigns after answers to Congress about antisemitism on campus draw sharp criticism

The University of Pennsylvania’s President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy

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