The Curious Case of Dr. Howell
…like Columbia’s Joseph Massad, who peppered his lectures with fact-free anti-Israel screeds; or those in Duke’s Group of 88 who used their class time to advocate for their ill-informed opinions…
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NYU’s Perilous Adventure in Abu Dhabi
…(homosexual acts are crimes in the Emirates), Israelis (none of the Emirates has formal diplomatic relations with Israel and all frequently deny entry to citizens of the Jewish state), and…
What Now After CLS?
…must admit Arab students who deny Israel’s right to exist? Not only does such a policy undermine freedom of association, but the resulting organizations are essentially useless. The arrangement does,…
The Politically Correct University and How to Fix It
…Middle Eastern studies departments really believe in women’s rights, why do they praise Hamas and boycott Israel? Why is it greedy for businesspeople to want higher profits, but idealistic for…
Anti-Apartheid Week – 2
…student organizations; the Muslim Student Association at various colleges and universities, and the widespread movement on behalf of disinvestment in Israel, whose sponsors regularly compares Israel to South Africa, and…
Anti-Apartheid Week – 1
…in the Israeli Army), non-Jews (Muslims and Christians serve in high positions in Israel) and dissenters, (virtually all Israelis dissent about something). Israel has the best environmental record in the…
Double Standards: Fresno and Columbia
…such anti-Israel zealots as Professor Joseph Massad—not on the grounds that what Massad was accurate in telling his class that, for instance, Israelis originated the tactic of hijacking airplanes in…
How Is Yiddish Doing?
…operetta set in the Land of Israel in late biblical times, it was last performed in Warsaw in 1939, and forcibly shut down by the German invasion of September 1….
The AAUP Strikes Out . . . Again
…education.” Other victims? Professors who criticize Israel, such as “mainstream scholars . . . Chicago’s John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Steven Walt .” (if the fate of Walt and Mearsheimer is…
Celebrating Academics’ Irrelevance
…attracted substantial attention when it opposed the Gaza war. (That stance put the so-called “pro-Israel” group to the left of even the far-left Meretz Party in Israel, suggesting that J…
An Anti-Israel Campus Conference?
…suggestions about a reinvigorated peace process and concentrated instead on Israel as a military machine determined to dominate the Palestinians,” said a statement by the UJA Federation and the Canada-Israel…
The Power of Academic Blogging
…Bernstein on the anti-Israel bias of Human Rights Watch. Like many observers, Bernstein had wondered why HRW—an organization founded in the wake of the Helsinki Declaration, whose central purpose had…
Massad Got Tenure (Don’t Tell Anyone)
…to suppress academic freedom on the campus.” Finally, Massad said that Columbia Unbecoming, a polemical film by a pro-Israeli group documenting what it alleged was anti-Israeli sentiment among professors on…
Not Your Grandparents’ AAUP
…applicant who had supported Israel’s right to self-defense against suicide murderers? Such a “reprehensible” moral viewpoint would constitute grounds for rejecting the application. A candidate who had publicly opposed the…
Erasing Israel At York University
…is exactly what would happen demographically if the “one-state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict became a reality. Israel’s 5.6 million Jews would be nearly outnumbered by 1.5 million Israeli Arabs,…
Three Groupthink Conferences—No Dissenters Please
…explores “the uncertain future of Israel/Palestine.” I asked the co-organizer of the event, Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, why the conference title referred to “Israel/Palestine” rather than Israel and Palestine; she did not…
How To Finesse A Student Occupation
…after it started. The university did not yield to the occupiers’ major demand—divestment in Israel—but it promised economic and humanitarian aid, including scholarships for Gaza students. Universities and colleges would…
Stanley Fish And The Storm In Ottawa: Seven Professors Say What They Think
…(a declining number by the way). See how often they are under attack for being too liberal, too anti-Israel, even too conservative. Realize that although most people in society do…
Was Nan Keohane Worse Than Brodhead?
…president under fire. As a member of the seven-person Harvard Corporation, Keohane played a key role in Larry Summers’ dismissal as president. Unlike Brodhead, Summers’ opposition to divestment from Israel…
Campus Madness, Part 346
…of human rights, social justice.” The speech had nothing to do with Israel. It was given by Israel Sariri, head of a Ugandan group working on sustainable development projects. He…
Obama And The Campus Left
…their case (chiefly by comparing Khalidi to a neo-Nazi) that they managed to generate a sympathetic backlash in favor of a man who had justified anti-Israel instruction in Columbia’s Middle…
Moderating The AAUP And MLA?
At its annual meeting, the American Association of University Professors declined to vote to criticize Israel, yet voted to condemn Iran. In December, the MLA rejected a statement defending critics…
NYU’s Middle East Problem
…players’ schedules aren’t big news. But Ram and Erlich are citizens of Israel, and the government of the United Arab Emirates prohibits holders of Israeli passports from entering the country….
Columbia’s Mistake of the Week
…Harvard and MIT to divest from Israel and from American companies selling arms to Israel. Columbia’s disappointing president, Lee Bollinger, called the divestment movement “grotesque,” but apparently he does not…
One More Disaster At Columbia
…according to a student witness, that the slaughter of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics had been perpetrated by the Israelis. The prize, bestowed by the Columbia College student council…
Dumbing Down: Then And Now
…how little his students know: “Nearly half of a recent class could not name a single country that bordered Israel. In an introductory journalism class, 11 of 18 students could…
No To Israel Bashing
Here is one response from Hawaii on the l8-day Israel-bashing conference sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa: “I just found out that an anti-Israel activist spoke at my…
Welcoming the Bomber
…other things, the obliteration of Israel and the murder of homosexuals. The folly was compounded by an intellectually impoverished Columbia dean who said Columbia would have invited Adolf Hitler, if…
To Contact The University Of Hawaii
Readers who wish to comment on the University of Hawaii sponsorship of a recent 18-day Israel-bashing conference should Email Dr. Virginia S. Hinshaw, chancellor of the university —vhinshaw@hawaii.edu or mco@hawaii.edu….
Hawaii and Palestine – Two Occupied Countries?
When an American university sponsors a conference on Israel and Palestine, most observers know what to expect: a prolonged rabble-rousing attack on Israel sponsored by the “anti-colonial” far left, with…