Free speech

Sarah Lawrence student senate rejects J Street U chapter after fierce backlash

'Student senators compared recognizing the group to approving ‘a white supremacist organization.’

Members of the national board of J Street U, the liberal Zionist group's campus wing, speak at their 2026 convention in Washington, D.C.
A Satellite image shows a likely oil spill covering dozens of square kilometers near Iran’s Kharg Island, earlier this month.

In double trouble: Iran’s oil crisis – opinion

Banners and Palestinian flags are displayed as people attend an anti-Israel protest amid the Israel-Hamas war, in Paris, France July 31, 2025.

Proposed antisemitism laws in France, Italy stir free speech debate

A PERSON wearing a rainbow mask is seen during the Brooklyn Liberation's Protect Trans Youth event in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, June 13, 2021.

US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy


Religious Services Minister plans law to exempt rabbis from political comments restrictions

Minister Matan Kahana's comments were criticized since municipal chief rabbis are in effect never subject to disciplinary procedures despite gross violations of the regulations.

Chief rabbis gathered to discuss reforms to the conversion and kashrut system

A writer's experience with cancel culture

While there is a lot of horrible language that deserves to be challenged and even canceled, it has created a climate of fear for writers like me.

 THE WRITER at the newspaper he  worked at during and after high  school.

When cancel culture comes for Jews - opinion

When “cancel culture” translates to public accountability for one’s behavior or comments, it sometimes seems only fair. But in an era of social media, the consequences can be profound.

BILLIE EILISH in Chanel during the Oscars arrivals at the 92nd Academy Awards in Hollywood in February 2020.

Canceling free speech leads to whitewashing history - opinion

Whatever happened to the once-noble American traditions of free speech, an open marketplace of ideas and academic freedom?

PROTESTERS ATTACH a chain to a statue of Andrew Jackson in front of the White House in Washington last summer.

Emi Palmor: The Israeli watchdog involved in Facebook's ban on Trump

With an imminent decision on Trump on the Oversight Board’s docket, all eyes are on its 20 members.

Emi Palmor.

Oppressive Turkish gov’t pushes bizarre ‘human rights’ plan - analysis

Is Turkey’s “human rights” plan just virtue-signaling to try to forestall US criticism, or is it part of a process of creating a new constitution and seeking to turn itself into a one party state?

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference following a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Turkey, December 14, 2020

Free speech does not mean hate speech - opinion

The limits of free speech were violated in the ad hominem assaults on Rabbi Beals, which are intolerable.

Rabbi Beals and Biden.

Capitol riot underscores the shared values of Americans and Israelis

Neither the US nor Israel has experienced a direct threat to the basic functioning of their democracies quite like the unspeakable act of Trump supporters storming the Capitol

Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, of Arizona, stands with other supporters of US President Donald Trump as they demonstrate on the second floor of the US Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, US, January 6, 2021.

My Word: Social media’s ultimate cancel culture

Who has the last word in determining what can be said in public in the global village?

3D-PRINTED BALLOT BOXES are seen in front of Facebook and Twitter logos.

Progressive Jewish groups oppose codification of IHRA antisemitism definition

Network of left-wing Jewish organizations argues that legal adoption of IHRA definition could stifle free speech and suppress debate on Israel. Foreign Ministry laments opposition to further adoption

A J Street panel meeting