Word: jeffriesism
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Feldman says he thinks that each side must recognize that it may experience the very foundations of a debate on totally different terms. For instance, Feldman says, he fundamentally trusts The New York Times and, thus, also its accounts of the Jeffries incidents in New York. However, he spoke with...
In the Jeffries conflict, Feldman says he heard many in the Black community saying, "don't tell me who to invite," which he found an understandable reaction.
When Leonard Jeffries was invited to campus by the Black Students Association (BSA), Hillel as a whole protested his speech, calling him anti-Semitic. Feldman has been an active member of Hillel for a long time, even before he came to Harvard, and he has chaired the Orthodox Congregation, and...
To tell the BSA that it should not have invited Jeffries established a power dynamic that "takes on the terms of a lecture, and that's wrong," Feldman says.
FREE SPEECH is one thing, but it does not include the right to issue death threats with impunity. Nor does it include the right to take somebody else's belongings. City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Leonard Jeffries did both last October when a Crimson editor interviewed him in...