German academics call for minister of education resignation

Thousands of academics in Germany are calling for the resignation of the minister of education, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, accusing her of threatening freedom of expression, amid a dispute over the clearing of a pro-Palestinian protest camp, at Berlin's biggest public university.

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Today’s guests are Katja Hoyer, a visiting research fellow at King’s College London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Mark MacKinnon, the Senior International Correspondent for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

(Photo: Police detains a pro-Palestinian demonstrator during a protest at the Humboldt University, in Berlin, Germany. CREDIT: REUTERS/Axel Schmidt TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)