Hillary Clinton: Universities Have the Obligation to Protect Free Speech and to Protect Students from Harassment

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CLINTON: "This year has been, you know, much quieter, much more educational environment where people can have these conversations. The ugly presence of anti-Semitism, not just positions against Israel — yeah, you could — it's perfectly legitimate, 'I don't like what that country does, and I don't agree with that country's foreign policy.' That is absolutely what you should be debating at a university. This was not that. This was screaming at students who were Jewish, it was blocking their entry into classes or into club activities. It was nasty. And so there was something else going on here that was very troubling. And we now, you know, we have seen evidence of, you know, obviously foreign money, foreign influence. The algorithms on TikTok, which were anti-Israel right off the bat, and so I think that a university particularly has an obligation to, of course, protect free speech, but also to protect students against harassment and against the kind of behavior that interfered with their learning. So that's where we are now."