Can universities facing antisemitism lawsuits hide behind the First Amendment?

Opinion section
Valley News - Opinion
Alan M. DershowitzDaily Caller News FoundationThere are no binding precedents on these complex issues, and the courts will have to balance conflicting rights — to free speech and to a safe environment.Violence and threats against Jewish students have become so rampant on many American campuses as to create a hostile and unsafe environment. University administrators face difficult challenges — legal, educational, moral and financial — in trying to deal with this growing concern.Recently, the secretary of education, Miguel Cardona, warned schools receiving federal aid that if they are insensitive to antisemitism and Islamophobia on their campus, they could lose federal funding. Harvard, on whose faculty I served for 60 years, is among them, and I am prepared to become a
Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.