Addressing highly fraught, and frequently stale-mated, debates on free speech in universities, this important, timely volume combines sharp, multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of the political and legal contexts, with case studies that offer practical, informed and creative suggestions for senior leaders and front-line academics on how universities can actively promote academic freedom. -- Therese OToole, University of Bristol, UK Free speech and academic freedom on university campuses face severe challenges worldwide today. This book explains why, illustrates the impact of global politics on higher education and provides examples of how inclusive communities of inquiry on university campuses can provide safe spaces of constructive disagreement. Thoughtfully curated and drawing on diverse examples from across the globe, this book is a very timely and essential reading for scholars, students, policy makers and activists. -- Yafa Shanneik, SOAS, University of London, UK In the 2020s Israel, Palestine and Antisemitism became some of the most divisive subjects in Western university classrooms, campuses and between universities administration and governments. This rich volume of theoretical articles and case-studies, calls to struggle for preserving academic freedom and offers tools on how to achieve it. Essential reading for faculty members, politicians and public intellectuals caring about freedom of speech and inquiry. -- Menachem Klein, Professor Emeritus, Bar Ilan University, Israel A book that does not merely analyse the root causes and contradictions of the free speech on campus problem, but demonstrates how universities can remain spaces of problem-solving and brave interaction in a conflicted world. Refreshing, pragmatic, versatile - and utterly timely. -- Torsten Janson, Lund University, Sweden
