Recognizing that others may have a point too

Developments at Columbia University and other campuses in the United States and the arrest of protesting students cannot but cause alarm - regardless of whether or not one agrees with their point of view - about the freedom of speech. The arrests also hark back to behavior and actions that we believed, perhaps naively, were well behind us.

In a recent Kathimerini piece respected Greek academics who teach at the renowned university shared their views on the ongoing student protests against the war in Gaza.

One of them, archaeology professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos, stressed the need - which should go without saying - for one side to listen to the other. This is true of the war in the Middle East but also applies more generally.

No matter how strong someone's opinion may be, no matter how staunchly one may think themselves to be in the right, acknowledging that...