Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Dana Gordon http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 04:07:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Academic Freedom vs. Freedom of Speech http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/academic-freedom-vs-freedom-of-speech/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/academic-freedom-vs-freedom-of-speech/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:19:09 +0000 Dana Gordon http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=102298 A major source of the rancor and hysteria over BDS and other political issues on campus is people’s confusion between freedom of speech and academic freedom.  Academic freedom exists as part of the protection for academia.  It doesn’t mean that the university can promote or permit any kind of speech it wants to.  Indeed, academic [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/academic-freedom-vs-freedom-of-speech/feed/ 0 Where is the hegemonic Jewish media cabal when we need one? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/where-is-the-hegemonic-jewish-media-cabal-when-we-need-one/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/where-is-the-hegemonic-jewish-media-cabal-when-we-need-one/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:44:24 +0000 Dana Gordon http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=91556 As many of you know by now, the powerful pan-Arab media broadcaster Al Jazeera has just bought a US cable TV channel, Current TV. Based in and owned by the Arab monarchy of Qatar, Al Jazeera paid half a billion dollars for a failed TV channel in order to get the unfettered US base it has [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/where-is-the-hegemonic-jewish-media-cabal-when-we-need-one/feed/ 0 Iran’s Czechoslovakia, an opportunity for the West http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/irans-czechoslovakia-an-opportunity-for-the-wests/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/irans-czechoslovakia-an-opportunity-for-the-wests/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:55:31 +0000 Dana Gordon http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=69522 Iran is taking Syria and making fools of the US and its allies. Is the US afraid of Iran? The US is acting as though it is. And so is Iran. Iran is no doubt a serious threat to nearly everyone — and in many more alarming ways than with a potential A-bomb — and [...]

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