Should our cherished laws protecting free speech, tolerance, and academic freedom be subject to the whims of politics and pop culture? What are our obligations, as a self-proclaimed “progressive” society, to permit and encourage all forms of debate and discourse? Our producer Michael Ramadan Jones meets with Joseph Massad of Columbia University to discuss these very questions as they apply to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Hosted by David Tereshchu. Part 2 of a two-part series.

This program was produced by Voices Of Our World for October 14, 2007.

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