The Harvard Law Review was supposed to run a piece by Palestinian lawyer Rabea Eghbariah about the war on Gaza. But HLR leadership took the unprecedented step of blocking its publication. Today, @thenation.comwww.thenation.com/article/arch...
The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.
Let me fix that for you: HLR stopped publication of some toxic anti-jewish garbage relativising genocide against Israeli civilians. There
I just read it and I can see why they blocked it. It is an appeal to emotion which contains no facts that would hold up in a court of law. Israel is not committing genocide.
will be seen by more here anyway
I have little doubt that the "prestigious" law firms whom the editors worked for last summer pushed to have this article blocked with the threat of withdrawing post-graduation offers if it wasn't.
American universities have been failing in the traditional university mission to nurture civic and scholarly debates on important yet difficult topics when sites present their, sometimes opposing, views. The less engaged and responsible scholarship at the university, the more unrest on the campus.
And the world yawned
I’m gonna fucking lose it man
For more on how the Harvard Law Review chose to block publication of this piece, read this investigation at @theintercept.comtheintercept.com/2023/11/21/h...
The Harvard Law Review censored a piece by a Palestinian scholar on applying a genocide framework to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
No doubt many will take issue with the author's assertions, but you can't even start to argue with a position that you can't even read, opinions that are denied publication. How anyone can see this creeping censorship in anything other than a worrying light is beyond me.