{"id":315212,"date":"2017-06-30T13:12:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protest-leader-insists-syracuse-prof-was-inciting-violence\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:12:42","slug":"protest-leader-insists-syracuse-prof-was-inciting-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/protest-leader-insists-syracuse-prof-was-inciting-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest leader insists Syracuse prof was \u2018inciting violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9379\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>June 30, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syracuse University believes that the professor who urged \u201cSyracuse people\u201d to \u201cfinish\u2026off\u201d anti-Sharia demonstrators was not promoting violence, but the protest\u2019s organizer disagrees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement emailed to the school community last week, Chancellor Kent Syverud unequivocally rejected demands that he fire or otherwise discipline Professor Dana Cloud for her tweet, which was posted during a \u201cMarch Against Sharia\u201d that was met by \u201canti-fascist\u201d (a.k.a., \u201cantifa\u201d) counter-protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe almost have the fascists in [sic] on the run,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danaleecloud\/status\/873578029636866048\">Cloud tweeted<\/a>. \u201cSyracuse people come down to the federal building to finish them off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/campusreform\/9379\/SyracuseProfTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"335\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe statement is susceptible to multiple interpretations,\u201d Syverud noted at the beginning of his email. \u201cSome have urged that, because their interpretations involve violence (interpretations the professor rejects), our university must discipline the professor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remarking that some of those messages \u201care hard to interpret in any way other than to encourage violence,\u201d he responds with an emphatic \u201cNo\u201d to their insistence that he \u201cdenounce, censor, or dismiss the professor for her speech,\u201d contending that Cloud\u2019s comments did not rise to the level of legally prohibited speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur faculty must be able to say and write things\u2014including things that provoke some or make others uncomfortable\u2014up to the very limits of the law,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThe statement at issue is, I believe, within those limits.\u201d<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Syracuse anti-Sharia protest, however, objected to Syverud\u2019s statement, saying that those who were present at the event could easily view her tweet as an attempt to incite violence, or at the very least as a call to curtail their exercise of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he understand she was there trying to shut down free speech and not the other way&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/protest-leader-insists-syracuse-prof-was-inciting-violence.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformJune 30, 2017 Syracuse University believes that the professor who urged \u201cSyracuse people\u201d to \u201cfinish\u2026off\u201d anti-Sharia demonstrators was not promoting violence, but the protest\u2019s organizer disagrees. 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