Israel and Campus Boycotts
…anti-Israel resolution, apply one standard toward Israeli professors and another toward themselves? Over the past several months, another academic anti-Israel boycott had percolated, this one among members of the Oral…
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Petraeus and the Assault on Academic Freedom
…fanatically anti-Israel graduate student who hadn’t even passed his qualifying exams, to teach a graduate class. Surely the UFS can’t seriously maintain that Petraeus, like Peterson-Overton, was unqualified for the…
‘Holistically’ Eliminating a Lot of ‘Them’ in Admissions
…the crowd. At one training session, Starkman encountered “a low-income student with top grades and scores, and who had served in the Israeli army.” But this applicant received only a…
Gays Bash Israel for ‘Pinkwashing’ (Protecting Gays)
…concept; the “pinkwasher” theorists allege, without evidence, that Israel uses its generally positive record on gay rights to obscure its allegedly evil treatment of the Palestinians. Of course, if Israel…
Divesting from Oil, Gas and Political Reality
…from tobacco companies, from companies that profit from the Darfur region of Sudan, and even from the nation of Israel. However, none of the copycat campaigns appear to have been…
Why Men Are Avoiding College
…to class without passing at least one group of surly protestors every day. Sometimes more than one. You name it: protesting Taco Bell, protesting Israel, this and that, to the…
With Massad, Columbia Gets What It Deserves
…Israel which included “a map of 1967 Israel that is labeled ‘Palestine.’” What distinguished Gershman’s reporting, however, was his ability to bring readers inside of Massad’s classes. (Massad refused to…
The Academic Boycott of Israel Comes to America
…skirt this point by specifying that this boycott targets “Israeli institutions and not Israeli scholars” and that they will encourage “partnerships” between AAAS members of pro-Palestinian Israeli academics. This distinction,…
Brooklyn College Criticizes Itself over Anti-Israel Event
…itself with the talk, which featured two speakers who advocated a nationality-based boycott against Israelis, divestment from Israel, and international sanctions against the Jewish state.) An investigation ensued, and CUNY…
An Extremist Comes to Brooklyn
The year of the extremist continues at CUNY’s Brooklyn College. Fresh off the anti-Israel BDS fiasco, the college has announced that the prestigious Charles Lawrence Memorial Lecture will be delivered…
‘Pinkwashing’–More Anti-Israel Agitprop at CUNY
…for two decades, Israel has a national non-discrimination law based on sexual orientation, and the Israeli government, unlike the U.S. government, recognizes same-sex civil marriages performed in other jurisdictions. (Israel…
A College Behaves Badly Over Israel
…ventures with Israel if a majority of the faculty formally endorsed BDS. It’s little wonder that many of the strongest critics of Israel on the faculty publicly praised Gould for…
The Backlash Grows in Brooklyn
…divestment, boycotts and sanctions against Israel?” As they have done on other campuses, anti-Israel activists talk colleges into sponsoring events featuring rabid Israel haters (in this case Omar Barghouti and…
More Anti-Israel Activism at Brooklyn
…Israel. Barghouti has penned a book on the concept, which even the status quo-oriented AAUP opposes, while Butler’s hostility to Israel has led her to make such bizarre claims as…
Israel and the Problem at Northeastern
During Chanukah, two students defaced a Menorah at Northeastern University, and Northeastern’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) led an ugly anti-Israel/pro-Hamas rally in Copley Square. One observer noted “the…
Ahmadine-jabbing American Students
…said he would introduce the president by issuing “sharp challenges” to his denial of the Holocaust, stated goal of wiping Israel off the map, support for terrorism, defiance of sanctions…
The Education of Rachel Corrie
…East, perhaps it’s better for its students simply to remain ignorant about Israel. While she was at the college, Corrie could learn about Israel through such one-sided offerings as “Seeking…
University of California’s Politicization is Out of Control
…here began on March 29, 2012, when two members of the UC faculty, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin of UCSC and Leila Beckwith of UCLA mentioned Professor Shorter’s promoting the boycott of Israel…
Thirty Million for Race and Gender Hires at Columbia
…(2) to divest from all companies that manufacture arms and other military hardware sold to Israel, as well from companies that sell such arms and military hardware to Israel.” Bollinger…
Using Classes for Advocacy OK at UCLA
…to teach is “Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts.” In the winter 2012 semester, Delgado taught a course called “Tribal Worldviews”; the course homepage contained a link called “Boycotting Israel.” The course…
A Questionable New Student
…applicants on the grounds of the student’s political affiliation–mean that members of the university’s notorious Middle Eastern Studies department would have grounds to protest admission of Israeli students? Moreover, focusing…
Where the White/Jewish Category Leads
…anti-white, anti-Israel, anti-gay bigot Charles Barron. (After his hatred for Israel earned him the endorsement of David Duke, Barron recently lost a congressional primary by 48 points; he promptly demanded…
Prominent Gender Historians Circle the Wagons
…Hellman’s political activism in the 1930s and 1940s. Hellman opposed creation of Israel, and signed a 1938 “Open Letter to American Liberals” (referenced here) that excused the show trials on…
“Pinkwashing” Comes to CUNY
…to which anti-Israel prejudice is tolerated in the academy. If 61 percent of Israelis had just voted to ban all legal recognition of same-sex couples, the Israeli Supreme Court had…
CUNY’s Self-Censoring Professors
How academic activists approach Iran is one of the more intriguing aspects of the groupthink-oriented academy. On the one hand, Iran is an enemy of Israel (the scourge of many…
Working Hard to Convince Freshmen They Are Victims
…Bayoumi’s book depicting Arab Americans as targets of bias after 9/11. The book relied on false statistics and ended with anti-US and anti-Israel comments by its author. Last year’s book…
An Ethically Challenged Black Studies Department
…Harvard professor sponsored the original, anti-Israel, no-confidence resolution against Larry Summers. Recent events highlighted on the department’s webpage include “What If Du Bois had Twitter?”; “Creating S.T.E.M. Researchers in the ‘Hood’”;…
The University of California Does Not Like Criticism
…cause,” he said. They should not put on their websites that everyone should be pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, for example. The problem of inappropriate political advocacy by faculty aggravates him, Yudof…
Donors Who Launch New Colleges
…about his philanthropy.) Cornell will partner with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the academic incubator of Israel’s high-tech “Silicon Wadi,” to launch the new tech campus. NYC Tech won’t be solely…
Scholars Who Are Beyond Open-Mindedness
…to criticize Islam, defend Israel or speak out in favor of Western civilizations live in a situation of provisional freedom. The academic freedom that once granted university professors the unconditional…