{"id":2380686,"date":"2024-12-16T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uw-madison-faculty-say-israeli-palenstinian-conflict-is-most-difficult-to-discuss-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:20:41","slug":"uw-madison-faculty-say-israeli-palenstinian-conflict-is-most-difficult-to-discuss-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uw-madison-faculty-say-israeli-palenstinian-conflict-is-most-difficult-to-discuss-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Madison faculty say Israeli-Palenstinian conflict is most difficult to discuss &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuw-madison-faculty-say-israeli-palenstinian-conflict-is-most-difficult-to-discuss-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-makes-me-doubt-my-party-former-clinton-pollster-calls-out-dems-for-lacking-backbone-to-condemn-dnc-protests\/\" title=\"\u2018It Makes Me Doubt My Party\u2019: Former Clinton Pollster Calls Out Dems For Lacking \u2018Backbone\u2019 To Condemn DNC Protests\">provided text \u2062includes<\/a> an HTML snippet that features a &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; button,which,when\u2064 clicked,is intended\u200c to reveal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-and-harry-join-joe-rogan-protest-demand-spotify-make-changes-on-covid-misinformation\/\" title=\"Meghan and Harry Join Joe Rogan Protest, Demand Spotify Make \u2018Changes\u2019 on COVID \u2018Misinformation\u2019\">additional content<\/a> hidden in the markup. 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Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison named the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the most difficult issue to discuss on campus with racial inequality and affirmative action ranking second and third, according to a new faculty survey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was named by 59% of faculty while racial inequality was listed by 42% and affirmative action by 41% in the poll from the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression.<\/p>\n<p>The poll of 124 faculty at UW-Madison showed that 13% had been disciplined or threatened with discipline, 30% recently toned down something they wrote out of fear of controversy and 60% were in favor of institutional neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">university told school leaders<\/a> not to pick sides in political debates while adopting viewpoint neutrality in September.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The McCarthy era is considered a low point in the history of American academic freedom with witchhunts, loyalty tests, and blacklisting in universities across the country,&rdquo; said FIRE&rsquo;s Manager of Polling and Analytics Nathan Honeycutt. &ldquo;That today&rsquo;s scholars feel less free to speak their minds than in the 1950s is a blistering indictment of the current state of academic freedom and discourse.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, faculty said in the poll that 70% experienced difficulty discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while racial inequality (51%), transgender rights (49%) and affirmative action (47%) were also named.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty also were mixed on if school administration protects free speech with 38% saying it is somewhat clear, 25% saying it is very clear, 18% saying it is not very clear, 14% saying it is extremely clear and 4% saying that protection is not at all clear.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UW-Madison faculty said that 65% were liberal, 20% moderate, 9% conservative and 7% were other.<\/p>\n<p>Most faculty (58%) said they never have to hide their political beliefs in an attempt to keep their job while 18% said it needs to be done rarely, 11% occasionally, 7% fairly often and 6% said it happens very often.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1913589\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1913589\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Madison faculty find Israeli-Palestinian conflict hardest to discuss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2380687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Lebanon-Israel-Hezbollah-ttyg5.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46925,46924,46923,46922],"class_list":["post-2380686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-academic-discussions","tag-faculty-opinions","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-uw-madison"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Lebanon-Israel-Hezbollah-ttyg5.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380690,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380686\/revisions\/2380690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}