No matter what one thinks about what is not permission to make stuff up. Congressman Jerrold Nadler did not, in fact, make any threat to cut funding to Brooklyn College nor did he make any demand about shutting to down the event. So I’m not sure I see the threat to academic freedom posed by the critics to the event, as claimed here at +972.  You can read Congressman Nadler’s letter here. Please, people, can we at least try to get things right?