Most leftist/liberals would say these two events validate their beliefs that the right was engaging in bad faith from the start of these “free speech” and that it was always about defending reactionary/bigoted statements that the right agreed with or at the minimum defended out of political tribalism.
Doesn't that mean they're engaging in bad faith now when they bring up free speech then? If I ran my own university I wouldn't have rules like this about speech but I didn't make the rules at these places, the far left sensitivity police did. Blaming this on "conservatives" is completely baseless. They're just mad that they have to follow their own rules.
We still haven’t seen what was behind the claim someone made against a university that it banned students from speaking Arabic and if there was a real policy there. I could speculate that it was an authority figure getting mad that students were chanting slogans in Arabic after being told to stop shouting violent English-language slogans, or maybe two students spoke Arabic to each other during a confrontation with an authority figure who told them not to do that. I have no idea! But I remain skeptical a college campus “banned students from speaking Arabic” seeing the way people regularly mischaracterize situations (e.g., “IDF soldiers used chemical weapons against protesters” was Israeli students enrolled at Columbia using “Liquid Ass” fart spray from Amazon - still wrong but not the same.)