NEW YORK — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, used Hannah Arendt's book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," to spark discussion among her students about the Holocaust and its lingering traumas. For Hirsch, the restrictions on drawing comparisons to the Holocaust and questioning Israel's founding amount to "clear censorship," which she fears will chill discussions in the classroom and open her and other faculty up to spurious lawsuits. Stern, who now serves as director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, called the move "appalling," predicting it would spur a new wave of litigation against the university while further curtailing pro-Palestinian speech.
Author: JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press
Published at: 2025-07-26 19:30:00
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