To the Editor:

As faculty at Ohio University, we declare our support for Megan Marzec‘s right to hold the views she expressed as well as the manner in which she expressed them in her „Gaza blood-bucket video.“ We are appalled by the death threats and other forms of intimidation that she has faced in response. We are also disappointed in OU administrators and community members who have criticized her act but have not publicly defended her against this violent response.

The invocation of „civility“ in the responses of OU authorities and some members of the community to Marzec also concerns us. Too often, as is recently the case at the University of Illinois and University of California, the invocation of „civility“ functions to silence dissent and debate on issues of current concern.