…when, of course, it is the ACTA report itself that is a threat to academic freedom, including the freedom to advocate for BDS.   The report muddies the issue–it has to, of course, given its Orwellian task–by pointing to cases where Israeli speakers were shouted down by protesters who were, indeed, violating free speech norms that should prevail on college campuses.  Those who did so should have been arrested or subject to university disciplinary proceedings.  But that does not change the fact that academic freedom must protect the right of faculty to advocate for BDS, and principles of free speech must protect the right of students to advocate for BDS on college campuses.