Petition led by Code Pink forces university to silence pro-Zionist journalist, exposing academia's slide into intellectual fascism and prejudice.
Long ago, when I was a student at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, academic institutions thrived on healthy and passionate dialogue and debate. I remember when the university invited Colonel Oliver North to speak on campus. Although almost every student irrationally despised the man (we were all young liberals in college), we looked forward to attending his talk. We wanted to discuss and debate him, hear his opinions and justifications, and hopefully let him see other points of view while we yearned to glean an understanding of his.
Sadly, those days are long gone. No longer are the halls of academia environments for discussion and intellectual growth; instead, they have become as one-dimensional and fascist as the USSR during the Stalin regime.
There may be no greater offender of this intellectual authoritarianism than UCLA, which has now canceled Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, from being on campus.
