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May 23, 2024, 9:26 PM

Letter on campus antisemitism

OPEN LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES We are writing as the executive committee of a new faculty organization, Faculty for Academic Freedom & Against Antisemitism (FAFAA). We are a growing voluntary association of 65 current and...

Apr 21, 2023, 10:57 PM

GWU Law Firm delivers what it was paid for

On March 27, 2023, the president of George Washington University issued a ten bullet point summary of a report received from a corporate law firm that GWU had hired to review the case of Lara Sheehi and a complaint...

Oct 5, 2018, 6:43 AM

Jasbir Puar Launches Women’s Studies on a Death Spiral

In the 1970s and 1980s the emerging field of Women’s Studies embodied the hopes and goals for transforming humanities disciplines. It led a long overdue effort to hire more women faculty. It promoted the drive to show how rigorous,...

Jun 19, 2018, 1:01 PM

What’s wrong with the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act?

Illustrative: Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

Rather than codify an official anti-Semitism definition, Congress should focus on preventing harassment of students

Jan 28, 2015, 2:16 PM

Dusk was falling on a January Saturday night in Jerusalem on a day on which I hadn’t yet eaten, but the restaurants in my neighborhood were clearly not going to open. I finally found a pizza joint some blocks...

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About Me

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the coeditor of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, published this January. He spent a month in Israel from December to January, lecturing at Israeli universities and elsewhere, with the support of Jewish organizations in the US.