The OfS is now consulting on a new complaints procedure for individuals who feel they have been penalised by universities for exercising their freedom of speech.Īsked to comment on the responses by the US university presidents, Ahmed would not be drawn, nor would he comment on hypothetical examples of students being sanctioned for expressing support for the intifada. But the legalistic responses of the three university leaders, and their difficulty in giving straightforward answers, could be a taste of things to come for Ahmed.Īhmed was appointed to his new role as the Office for Student’s director for freedom of speech and academic freedom after legislation passed this year. Stefanik’s questions were provocatively couched and unfair, conflating support for a “global intifada”, a word generally taken to mean “struggle”, with genocide. Gay has survived, with an apology and the backing of Harvard’s trustees and many faculty members, with hundreds of academics signing a petition opposing calls for her to stand down. Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, was asked if a call for genocide against Jews violated her university’s code of conduct, and replied: “Again, it depends on the context.”įour days later, Magill resigned.

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