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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…(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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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’”;…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…purpose was the blatantly political one of promoting a boycott of Israeli academic institutions; a rancorous shout-down of pro-Israel commentator Daniel Pipes when he tried to speak on the UC-Irvine…
…and settlement policies.” A self-described Zionist whose comments on Israel make Peter Beinart look like a defender of Israeli security policies by comparison, Alexander declared last year that “Israel is…
…offense at such virulent anti-Israel hate fests on campus such as “Justice In Palestine Week” and wish to answer back? Anti-Israel students and professors have the right to spew forth…
…a doctoral student in Israel Studies at Brandeis, worried that “supporters of Israel on campus are simply silenced. They correctly understand that if they stand up for Israel, they risk…
…rule Gaza, rejects Egypt’s peace treaties with Israel and remains on the U.S. terrorist list. The department’s six-month review of MSAs of the tri-state area, Kelly said, uncovered some activity…
…slime, Alterman appears to be “contributing” to the discourse among far-left critics of Israel, who seek to downplay anti-Semitism as a way of minimizing the motives of Israel critics. After…
…issue – Lebanon and Israel are still technically at war and AUB students, faculty and administrators are forbidden from traveling to Israel or participating in international forums with Israeli citizens…
…ALICE, where volunteers could aid him in “identifying, supporting and assisting 10,000 progressive local elected officials.” Over at Penn, they are hosting an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction conference this…
…Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan has been a stout defender of President Obama, while his anti-Israel fanaticism might even make him at home in Columbia’s Middle East Studies Department, much less…
The case of Julio Pino, the Kent State professor who shouted “death to Israel” at an address by an Israeli diplomat, has received a good deal of attention. In a…
…recent examples of the pattern crossed my desk in the past week. The first involved Rashid Khalidi, the prominent anti-Israel professor from Columbia. In an October 11 post, Martin Kramer…
…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…