The arrest of dozens of Pro-Palestinian demonstrators since last week has left First Amendment advocates asking who gets to enjoy speech protections in Texas.
Expect bag checks at next year’s Fiesta De Los Reyes after shootings 2 years in a row, SAPD chief saysA crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators march Wednesday at The University of Texas at Austin. State police officers march behind them.“Some colleges are banning free speech on college campuses. Well, no more because I'm about to sign a law that protects free speech on college campuses in Texas,” Abbott said in 2019.
“Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled,” he said Wednesday on social media platform X. “What we're seeing here is this hypocrisy of big double standards saying we love free speech, not this speech,” said Alex Morey, the director of campus rights advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.Tensions at the UT-Austin campus come five years after Texas Republicans banded together around a new law to boost free speech protections at Texas universities.
Texas universities have the right to create “reasonable time, place and manner” restrictions on free speech activities. When those rules are violated, universities can discipline students, Steven McGuire, a fellow on campus freedom at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, said. UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell’s explanation of the university’s response and the police crackdown last week seemed at odds with the protections the university has previously touted.
Ahead of last week’s demonstration, organizers never indicated in public communications that they intended to stay past the university’s 10 p.m. curfew, incite violence or start encampments. Instead, in an Instagram post, organizers spoke of teach-ins on the South Lawn, an art workshop and a pizza break, according to an Instagram post from the organizing group.
In explaining why law enforcement was called, UT-Austin spokesperson Brian Davis on Wednesday said student protesters had violated their “no masks” rule for demonstrations. “Someone peacefully protesting and saying, ‘From the river to the sea,’ is not going to be severe, pervasive objectively offensive, such that Jewish students who are offended by that speech are going to be unable to go to class,” Morey said. “It's not going to hit discriminatory harassment, just because Governor Abbott calls it hate speech or calls it antisemitic. ”
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