- Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
- August 9, 2020
- Paper No. 1683
Cancel cultureโthe denial to certain people of any platform on which to express their side of an issueโhas become more and more accepted in public debate. It led to a letter decrying it by more than 150 writers and intellectuals in Harperโs Magazine. But the signatories never saw fit to object to the longstanding anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish cancel culture that exists at many Western universities. The letter offers no operational conclusions, though a logical one would be the reformulation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution to make hate speech punishable by law.