Comment Re:Don't reduce this to mere slogans (Score 1) 414
It is nowhere near borderline "fighting words". The Brandenburg test, which requires that to be suppressed, the speech is directed towards inciting "imminent lawless action" and likely to produce such action, clearly marks it as protected speech.
But Harvard does not apply that standard to its students (and as a private university they don't have to); they punish students for racism, sexism and various other offenses against favored groups. This leaves them in a tough spot when they then don't punish students for calling for the destruction of Israel, because if they're not allowing that speech on free speech grounds, what grounds are they allowing it on?