Politicians Campaign on Free Speech While Voting to Penalize Boycotts of Israel




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Summary: Politiciansaround the country are seizing upon highly publicized episodes of conservatives faced with harassment and heckling on college campuses by responding with a wave of legislation supposedly aimed at preserving free speech rights for campus speakers.But that commitment, while draped in the mantle of a principled defense of the First Amendment, does not always extend tospeakers who criticizeIsrael and its policies.