Redefining Words to Obscure Facts
…to Israel,” written by a number of Canadian academics, is full of misrepresentations that are often injected into discussions of the terrorist attacks on Israel. Here are two: “the Israeli…
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The Ramallah Quakers
…attended as an undergraduate. He represents the Quaker echo chamber regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that ensures that only the Palestinian narrative will be voiced. Atshan has also been active with…
In the Wilderness, with Igal Hecht
…my imagination. It took me many years living in Canada until as a trained filmmaker I finally allowed myself to make films about Israel and in Israel. From then on…
Get Smart: A Review of Kenneth Stern’s “The Conflict over the Conflict”
…Bank or Netanyahu, but about “Israel’s existence.” Getting to work even before the BDS movement fully took shape, Stern has been prominent in efforts, often successful, to persuade non-Israeli academics…
Dear Black Lives Matter: What is the alternative to the nuclear family?
…communally. Unsurprisingly, all sorts of problems arose (jealousy, sexual abuse, neglect of children), and the community collapsed by 1878. Even the seemingly successful experiment of the kibbutz movement in Israel…
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations at Rutgers
…intersectionality of oppression to which campus victim groups regularly point, BLM’s 2016 platform included anti-Semitic language that libeled Israel by attempting to link its perceived oppression of the Palestinians with…
Open Access and Intellectual Freedom: Linked Meditations
…regime, including, at a minimum, Israel, Hungary, Russia, and China. Scholars should preferentially publish in open access scholarly websites that 1) have no editorial bottlenecks; 2) facilitate pseudonymous or anonymous…
It’s Time to Purge Your Universities of Anti-Semitism
…that they, and they alone, are able to set standards for free speech—in these particular cases, involving the debate about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and how Jewish students and other Israel…
A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
…outrage. [The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds] Jewish legislators complained that it pushed the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement (BDS) that has become so dear to the left,…
Are the Doors to Elite Universities Still Open to Jewish Students?
…as Zionists or supporters of the State of Israel. In 2014, SJP sent Jewish NYU students fake eviction notices to protest Israel’s policies, and in 2018, two SJP members were…
Rampant Hypocrisy at UMass
…how the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobby work together with the U.S. government to shape American media coverage in a pro-Israel direction. Tell it to the New York Times. Ironically,…
Anti-Semitism Growing on America’s Campuses
…Benjamins baby” when describing the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) [How Campus Bullies Pulled Off the Anti-Israel BDS Movement] Omar still serves on the influential House…
The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
…“mansplaining.” Asking a student of Asian background if he or she is in sciences or engineering, is a “micro-aggression” because it reflects an ethnic stereotype. Wearing an Israel t-shirt is…
What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University
…Your children will learn that only whites are racist. Israeli Colonialists Are White Supremacists A remarkable example of this line of thinking is the characterization of Israel as a settler…
How Campus Bullies Pulled Off the Anti-Israel BDS Movement
…array of student and non-student organizations, and aided by academic departments that host breathtakingly dishonest anti-Israel speakers, is to depict Israel as just like apartheid-era South Africa. The equation of…
How ‘They’ Hijacked Anthropology
…relativity, parading their antisemitism in their implacable condemnation of the Jewish national home of Israel, and in their apologetics for Palestinian terrorism. The half-million citizens recently murdered in Syria, however,…
Brooklyn College Stifles Pro-Israel Voices
…professors, Samir Chopra and Corey Robin, were arrested outside the Israeli mission in New York for protesting the Israeli bombing of Gaza. The Israeli bombing at issue was the culmination…
DePaul—The Worst University for Free Speech?
…spring quarter, 2009, the announcement of a speaker from Israel to talk about rocket attacks on southern Israel included a plan to display an unarmed Qassam rocket to help illustrate…
Was Fordham Right to Ban a Pro-Palestinian Club?
…of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, to teach college students that Israel should be treated as a pariah state, on the order of apartheid-era South Africa. Related: Does Free…
Do We need a Watchlist for Ideological Professors?
…the Cleveland Plain Dealer was unable to confirm that. Pino has repeatedly denounced Israel. In 2014 he posted an “open letter” to “academic friends of Israel” that said they are…
How Colleges and Universities Foster “Hate Culture”
…social and political goals, choosing sides between groups in a conflict. For example, The American Studies Association has declared a boycott on Israeli universities as a show of opposition for…
How Diversity Came to Mean ‘Downgrade the West’
…U.S. or Israel are welcomed as speakers and faculty members, and universities and professional academic associations seek to enforce the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. In fact, as…
How Anthropology Was Corrupted and Killed
…voting (until May 31) on a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The proposed resolution jumps off in its first sentence in universalist language, claiming that Israel has denied Palestinians “their…
Profs Go to the Mattresses Against Israel
…other support for Israel; Israel’s violation of international law and UN resolutions; the documented impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students; the extent to which Israeli institutions…
BDS: Jew-Hating Propagandists on the March
…in the audience reported that Puar exhorted armed resistance to Israel; alleged that Israel “mined for organs” from dead Palestinians; and claimed that Israel systematically starves Palestinians as part of…
Worry about Islamophobia, but Not Anti-Semitism
…even go so far as to defend hateful expression as freedom of speech. In recent months, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bullying, misrepresentation and double standards have been common fare. In one…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…JONATHAN HAIDT: Anthro is completely lost. I mean, it’s really militant activists. They’ve taken the first step towards censoring Israel. They’re not going to have anything to do with Israeli…
BDS and the Rise of Post-Factual Anthropology
…Israeli culpability for the situation in Israel and Palestine. The original Piltdown hoax was exposed only because anthropologists cared about the data. But in the new post-factual anthropology, only the…
Our AntI-Israel American Universities
…to helping Jewish students combat the direct anti-Semitism inherent to the anti-Israel student movements. Despite the substantial funds that have been devoted to fighting anti-Israel forces on campuses, they have…
A Movement to Turn Colleges and Students Against Coal, Oil and Gas
…divestment campaign in history”1—although recent divestment campaigns, with the exception of the “Boycott/Divest/Sanction” movement against Israel, have not achieved national traction, and the one previous major divestment movement, against South…