“Steering” Orthodox Jews Away from Massad at Columbia
…The basic allegation is that a Barnard student was unlawfully “steered” away from Massad’s class by a departmental chair, Dr. Rachel McDermott, who urged her to study ancient Israel instead….
…The basic allegation is that a Barnard student was unlawfully “steered” away from Massad’s class by a departmental chair, Dr. Rachel McDermott, who urged her to study ancient Israel instead….
…Cal-Irvine Muslim Students Organization conspired to disrupt a campus speech by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. Eugene Volokh spells out the relevant statute under which the students were convicted: “‘Every person who,…
…this campaign in response to an alarming number of incidents against Jewish and Israeli students at U.S. universities. A center’s lawyer, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said, “Anti-Israel rallies and events frequently exceed…
…in New England,” wrote that after the towers fell,“ The professional and academic left immediately started with “the chickens have come home to roost,” “it’s our fault for supporting Israel,…
…Israel. The organization’s new standards now face their first test–but from a most unexpected source. In the left-leaning New Republic, Alex Klein has a blog post criticizing Yale’s Grand Strategy…
…which closed with a chapter riddled with factual errors and highly dubious statistical inferences designed to portray either Israel or U.S. policy toward Muslims in a highly negative light. After…
By Jonathan B. Imber Until 1969, on the campus where I teach, all students were required to take two semester s of Bible, which made the Department of Religion a…
…know that he considers himself a Zionist. (The fanatically anti-Israel Andrew Sullivan regularly employs this tactic before penning yet another post criticizing Israeli security policies.) He then criticized YIISA for allowing the…
…public concerns with the Israeli government’s behavior,” especially “Israel’s military and settlement policies.” He urged closing the program immediately, rather than giving it a chance to reform. Monday brought news…
…and ship them all there. This spectacularly idiotic idea got the full attention of my editors. (“Sociologist Urges ‘a Second Israel’ in Andes for Negroes.” Available online from the Times…
…Israeli government’s behavior.” The article described Alexander as pointing to “Israel‘s military and settlement policies” to justify his complaint that YIISA’s gathering was too supportive of Israeli actions. Alexander’s most recent books…
…at a time when anti-Semitism continues to be virulent and anti-Israel parties treat any effort to address issues relating to anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism as illegitimate, Yale’s decision is particularly unfortunate…
…what seemed to disturb him most was a college honor for an anti-Israel celebrity at a time when anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic) opinion seems to be rising on campuses around the…
…cultural boycott of Israel. Schrecker, obviously, has no problem with the board sending that message. The Kushner story spread beyond normal coverage of academic affairs to engage typical critics of Israel and…
…anti-Israel sentiments.” That the highest elected faculty official at CUNY could describe such Kushner statements as Israel is involved in “a deliberate destruction of Palestinian culture and a systematic attempt to destroy the identity…
…freedom as shielding from outside criticism anything its (generally anti-Israel) members say, teach, or write. MESA rang in with a defense of the University of Minnesota, urging the TCA to withdraw its…
…Rossman-Benjamin describes an atmosphere at Santa Cruz in which taxpayer-supported, university-sponsored discourse that “demonizes Israel, compares contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, calls for the dismantling of the…
…vital to the Democratic Party’s base. Among the Democrats, only the party’s (dwindling) band of strongly pro-Israel figures would have political cover to address the effects of the groupthink, “diversity”…
…to enter, go here. From the press release: Campuses have become staging grounds for campaigns demonizing Israel, intimidating Jewish students and threatening the foundation of civil discourse in academia. Anti-Semitism…
Last week, I wrote about the extraordinary adjunct appointment of Kristofer Petersen-Overton, the under-qualified anti-Israel extremist assigned to teach a graduate course in Brooklyn’s political science department. On Monday evening,…
…for its close ties to the anti-Israel leadership of the CUNY faculty union hired Petersen-Overton because of his extremist views on Israel-related matters (he has, for instance, accused Israel of…
…(which includes contributions from such notable anti-Israel extremists as Norman Finkelstein and Omar Barghouti) as a book “about the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla” is a little like saying…
…on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Bayoumi provides no source for this claim, relying implicitly on the widely held view of Palestinian supporters that a vast Israeli lobby controls U.S. Middle East…
…opposed this measure came as no surprise—PSC boss Barbara Bowen seems more interested in denouncing Israel than in promoting quality educational initiatives. But the stance of the more moderate UUP…
…against Israel as from the possibility that Israeli citizens might leave the country because they were afraid of a nuclear strike against Israel. Not to worry, wrote the Leveretts, noting…
…has sanctioned the MSU for an anti-Israel (not anti-Semitic) incident in which the union on February 8, 2010 continually disrupted a speech by Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the…
…1990s”; for accusing Bayoumi “of being an anti-Israeli ‘extremist’ because Bayoumi declares, ‘the core issue remains the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination’”; for having “dare[d] to oppose the…
…“Arab Americans” were “more often [emphasis added] used to limit the speech of Arab Americans in order to cement U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Bayoumi presents no evidence to…
…with an extremist critique of Israeli national security policy and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Regardless of the merits of Bayoumi’s portrayal of his subjects, it’s hard to…
…that produced the late anti-Israel “activist” Rachel Corrie), as the model for his and Trower’s vision. I first encountered Trower in 2003, when Brooklyn College’s then-provost, Roberta (“teaching is a…