Oxford Union Debate Debacle Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain

Oxford Union Debate Debacle Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain

Oxford Union Debate Debacle Exposes The Real Limit Of Free Speech In Britain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In the heart of the Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic. Commentator Laurence Fox stood to argue that the West is right to be suspicious of Islam. He held up the envelope and indicated it contained a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. The chamber erupted in frantic…

The Oxford Debate That Broke the Internet — Jonathan Sacerdoti Tells All

Why did Jonathan Sacerdoti’s Oxford Union debate go viral — and what happened behind the scenes? In this episode of The Brief, host Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Jonathan Sacerdoti — British broadcaster, journalist, and public intellectual — for a conversation about the Oxford Union debate that went viral around the world, the BBC’s Gaza...