Georgetown Law taps free-speech advocate to replace Jewish commencement speaker after antisemitism-hearing backlash
TL;DR
Georgetown Law canceled Morton Schapiro’s commencement invitation following student pushback over his Israel/Palestine commentary and replaced him with David Cole, a Georgetown Law professor and former ACLU legal director who has criticized campus antisemitism hearings as McCarthyism and defended First Amendment rights.
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