Norman Finkelstein in Conversation with Cornel West and Nadine Strossen | Free Speech and Gaza

LIVE AT POWERHOUSE ARENA, a conversation series by OR Books

A challenging debate on cancel culture, free speech, and Gaza with Norman Finkelstein, Cornel West, and Nadine Strossen.

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About the Book:

I’LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT
Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom
NORMAN X. FINKELSTEIN

America’s most canceled intellectual presents a scorching defense of free thought and a devastating indictment of a left that has lost its way.

“Badly needed, and done with Finkelstein’s usual verve and precision.”
—Noam Chomsky

“Like his magisterial work on Gaza, this book is both brilliant and brave.”
—Cornel West

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Table of Contents

00:00 - Waiting
15:46 - Introduction to speakers
23:09 - 3 Topics: Gaza, freedom of speech, academic freedom
28:37 - Nadine Strossen on basic principles of free speech
36:38 - Debating the free speech exception for war criminals, like Nazis
58:02 - Debating the value of de-platforming perpetrators of lynchings
1:03:30 - Cancel culture, its precursors and its evolution
1:06:49 - W.E.B. Du Bois and German historian Heinrich von Treitschke
1:11:41- Angela Davis and Arthur Jensen
1:16:30- Leonard Jeffries and Michael Levin
1:29:37 - Gaza, campus protests and the question of anti-semitism
1:38:35 - “From the river to the sea” and “globalize the Intifada”
1:41:24 - Harvard report: discriminatory enforcement and double standards
1:43:58 - Jewish students’ right to ‘safe spaces’ in academia amid pro-Palestine protests
1:47:58 - Harvard applied double standards - in favor of or against Jewish students?
1:54:47 - Did campus protests and encampments violate Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
1:57:36 - ‘Hostile environment harassment’, a clarification
2:01:50 - ‘From the river to the sea’ - meanings
2:04:27 - “Globalize the Intifada’ and Zohran Mamdani
2:06:35 - Billionaire donors and the assault on academic freedom
2:17:11 - A very curious definition of anti-semitism and a phenomenon they call “shunning”
2:19:38 - Should ‘child killers’ be shunned?
2:34:08 - My mother wanted me to kill the concentration camp guard
2:39:43 - The possibility of redemption
2:41:40 - Q&A: Why shouldn’t a student who has committed atrocities against Palestinians be shunned?
2:47:22 - Q&A: Is BDS a form of shunning?
2:49:28 - Q&A:
2:54:34 - Paul Robeson, CLR James, and sacrifice
2:59:25 - Tension between identity politics and class struggle
3:00:53 - Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani
3:03:32 - Q&A: The university as a site of struggle is limited, indifferent to working class struggle
3:07:49 - The struggle for Palestinian liberation is also in the streets, not just in academia
3:14:22 - Reasons to be hopeful
3:18:46 - And there is a place for all at the rendezvous of victory, Aimé Césaire,

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