Universities and standards of debates over Israel

Everybody is entitled to their own views over any topic (it is just decent to get the knowledge and facts first, get it from all sides if it is anything even remotely controversial and allow for free opinion of others which may be different from ours). One would have expected that in free, democratic world this statement about right to our opinions but also about the 3 conditions mentioned in the brakes will be specially cherished during any university debates. After all universities are supposed to be places where people gain knowledge, where they discuss different opinions and are entitled to have them and where it is somewhat shameful to express opinions - specially strong ones - without checking the facts.

Apparently not so any longer!

Below I put 2 links to articles about discussing Middle East conflict on universities - in this case in Norway and in the USA but I have seen it happening in other countries - free and democratic - as well.
Harvard University "discussion" and Norway universities refusal to discuss BOTH sides of the story is the illustration of the very concept of preventive censorship. Until recently I thought that on universities, let alone the leading universities, the attempt to organise discussion without inviting people from different options presenting different points of view would have been unimaginable. Purely unprofessional, going against scientific standards and honesty and neither university staff nor the students would buy into this. After all there are cheaper ways to be exposed to propaganda (whatever side or topic) than attending studies at expensive, hard to get and known universities!
I was naive! It looks like people organising such discussions on Israel are allowed and expected to organise nothing remotely reminding academic discussion but very strongly reminding Orwell's "hate weeks" from "1984" or the "discussions" over capitalism in communist countries in Stalinist times.

It is just purely sad that the freedom of word, professionalism of discussion, freedom of thought have been cheaply traded for unifying people around the fight "against" (the old witch-hunt!!!!!!!) and that freedom for which so many paid with their lives is easily set aside by those who are supposed to be elite (present or future).