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   [1/2] https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/
   https://captimes.com/opinion/guest-columns/opinion-uw-madison-not-acting-in-good-faith-with-student-protesters/article_e4867ce6-0e19-11ef-95e1-bba73476bbef.html
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-universities-antisemitism

   *From Campus to the Courts, the "Palestine Exception" Rules University Crackdowns.* I looked at the article for which Dahlia Saba and Vignesh Ramachandran were accused

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     [2/2] and threatened with punishment. It is democratic participation, pure and simple, and trying to punish people for that is vicious opposition to democracy. For a university administration even to consider such intimidation shows a lack of respect for democracy and academic freedom. I expect this repression to get far worse when America's highest officials are overt enemies of democracy, acting on administrators who have no sense of loyalty to freedom of speech. Others expect it too.