The BDS Bullies Take Over
…speak about how Israel’s existence conflicts with Jewish values. Portray the Palestinians as the underdog. Stage 2: Arrange displays on your campus–the bigger the better. Put up an eight-foot high…
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Redwashing, Pinkwashing, and Hogwash in Beirut
…Palestinian Authority “willing collaborators with the (Israeli) military occupation, a sort of Vichy government for Palestinians.” He is the patron scholarly saint of those who reject a two state solution….
ASA and the Politicization of Academe
…our purview of education. When it comes to the disputes between Israel and Palestinians, my sympathies are with the sole democracy in the Middle East, where the rule of law…
A Watered-Down Boycott Resolution on Israeli Institutions
…existential conflict? Surely the denizens of the ASA could spare a resolution or two for China, Saudi Arabia, and other unfree societies. The ASA’s commitment to academic freedom for Palestinians,…
Israel and Campus Boycotts
…for Israeli national security policies, and argue that the organization should “keep primarily in mind the freedom and ability for Palestinians to study free of a military occupation.” Yet by…
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…
With Massad, Columbia Gets What It Deserves
…remove a Jewish student from class if she did not acknowledge Israel’s supposed atrocities against Palestinians, in 2005 Massad used one of Columbia’s “Core” classes to assign one book about…
The Academic Boycott of Israel Comes to America
…to Palestinians.” This language was consistent with former AAAS president Rajini Srikanth’s explanation for the boycott. He compared Israel to apartheid South Africa and argued that working with Israeli universities…
‘Pinkwashing’–More Anti-Israel Agitprop at CUNY
…of the Palestinians. There’s one major difference between the Brooklyn BDS event and the Graduate Center. While the Brooklyn event lacked even the pretense of academic content–and thus was, on…
Israel and the Problem at Northeastern
…“lethal narrative” in a cognitive war developed by racist Palestinians to mark Jews as a legitimate target of violent revenge. Hence the chant of the SJP in Copley square: “When…
The Education of Rachel Corrie
…Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon bore responsibility for the Palestinians’ embrace of suicide-murder tactics, has made something of a career in Corrie Studies; the Evergreen website notes that he served…
“Pinkwashing” Comes to CUNY
…“a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life,” resulting from the unfortunate pattern of “increasing gay…
Defending Israel Creates a Hostile Environment on Campus?
…used by the Israeli Defense Forces against Palestinians,” with the empty ambition that “by removing investments from companies who assist in perpetuating the violence in the area [supporters would be…
Addressing Anti-Israel Attitudes on Campus
…the Israelis (rather than to the Palestinians).” He worried that “when we spend our energy responding to anti-Israel accusations, we engage the battle on our adversaries’ terms–not ours. Further, by…
A Bastion of American Values in the Arab Middle East
…the World Bank, his “pro-Zionist” positions, and alleged disregard for Palestinians. The university’s president, Peter F. Dorman, said the petition’s allegations were not only factually inaccurate, but “insulting” to a…
You’re Wrong about Columbia’s ‘Steering,’ Ken
…featured in the 2004 student movie “Columbia Unbecoming” for their overt hostility to pro-Israel students. One student, an Israeli, said that Massad had retorted, “How many Palestinians did you kill today?” when…
The Elites Handle the Kushner Controversy
…(The American people sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians by 63 percent to 17 percent, according to Gallup) but that is not the case on our campuses, among…
Kushner and His Defenders–the Empire Strikes Back
…offered a long diatribe against Wiesenfeld capped off by a chilling description regarding former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir: “Until you grasp the fundamental belief of some pro-Israel extremists that Palestinians are collectively…
Ian McEwan’s Take on the Larry Summers Saga
…audience because she’s too hegemonic and also an Israeli and therefore “an oppressor of Palestinians.” McEwan is often recognized as one of the great writers of the 21st Century. He…
California’s Most Anti-Semitic College
…more than ten interruptions in which MSU members screamed slogans such as “propagating murder is not an expression of free speech” “killer” and “how many Palestinians did you kill?” As…
Anti-Apartheid Week – 2
…their sympathies lie with the Palestinians whose land has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war, and whom Jews should support because they too must be “anti-imperialist.” It is,…
Anti-Apartheid Week – 1
…There was a mixed audience of Israelis and Palestinians, and the man sitting next to me was an Israeli Arab, who is the culture minister of the State of Israel….
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…
Massad Got Tenure (Don’t Tell Anyone)
…whose savage critiques of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians made him revered by Arabs and detested by Israelis and their Jewish supporters. Massad describes Said, who died in 2003,…
Erasing Israel At York University
…return for Palestinians, if only to the West Bank or Gaza. Furthermore, as the pro-Israel NGO Monitor pointed out, a significant number of conference panelists have no academic affiliation whatsoever…
Three Groupthink Conferences—No Dissenters Please
…limited to the increasingly desperate circumstances of Palestinians in Gaza or the construction of the separation wall, settlements, and the infrastructure of closure—may now demand attention in new ways.” In…
NYU Is Safe Again
…put out a statement supporting the protesters’ call for “universities to end their participation in the brutal oppression of Palestinians.” The New York Daily News published an editorial making fun…
One More Disaster At Columbia
…in the Middle East studies department,” a keenly competed for designation at Columbia. Massad is one of the professors accused of demanding of one Israeli student, “How many Palestinians did…
No To Israel Bashing
…graduate of the school. We are Catholic and the issue was raised after Good Friday masses. The speaker told the children that Israel has treated the Palestinians badly and by…
Columbia’s Israel Problem
…asserted in the film that when he had asked a question of Massad during an off-campus lecture, Massad refused to answer until the student revealed how many Palestinians he had…