"Silencing dissent in America"

Caroline Glick writes:

"Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket. Gold is scheduled to debate Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University next Thursday and the anti-Israel forces are organizing quite a reception for him...

"In an email to a campus list-serve, Brandeis student and anti-Israel activist Jonathan Sussman called on his fellow anti-Zionists to disrupt the event that will pit the 'neutral' Goldstone against Gold with his 'wildly pro-Zionist message.' Sussman invited his list-serve members to join him at a meeting to 'discuss a possible response.'

"As the young community organizer sees it, 'Possibilities include inviting Palestinian speakers to come participate, seeding the audience with people who can disrupt the Zionist narrative, protest and direct action.' He closed his missive with a plaintive call to arms: 'Fk the occupation...'

"While many commentators claim that the situation on college campuses is unique, the fact is that the attempts of leftist activists on campuses to silence non-leftist dissenters regarding Israel and a host of other issues is simply an extreme version of what is increasingly becoming standard operating procedure for leftist activists throughout the US. Rather than participating in a battle of ideas with their ideological opponents on the Right, increasingly, leftist activists, groups and policymakers seek to silence their opponents through slander, intimidation and misrepresentation of their own agenda."

Read it all. This is happening in Canada, too.