Georgetown professor called to testify says Republican-led proceedings ‘an attempt to chill protected speech’
A congressional panel investigating antisemitism on US college campuses on Wednesday was accused of trying to chill constitutionally protected free speech and likened to a cold-war era committee notorious for wrecking the lives of people suspected of communist sympathies.
The comparison was made by David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University law centre, who told the House education and workforce committee that its proceedings resembled those staged by the House un-American Activities Committee (Huac) during and after the second world war.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/house-committee-campus-antisemitism
Author : Robert Tait in Washington
Publish date : 2025-05-07 20:02:00
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