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November 5, 2015

An Israeli Professor Is Shouted Down at the University of Minnesota

Moshe Halbertal vs. the heckler’s veto.

On Tuesday, the dovish Israeli scholar Moshe Halbertal came to the University of Minnesota to give a talk on the ethics of warfare. But a campus group organized a protest, delaying the lecture by 45 minutes with shouting and denunciations until university police intervened. Dale Carpenter, who was present at the talk, writes:

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