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Jan 16, 2021, 1:10 AM

Targeting Jewish student leaders for banishment and shaming

In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from student anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is...

Jan 10, 2021, 2:46 AM

Terror U: Who is Suppressing Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities?

In January of 2019, the Academic Freedom Committee of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) wrote a letter to Benyamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and several other ministers and officials. In that condemnatory letter, MESA, an organization that has been...

Jan 2, 2021, 2:53 PM

Incubating Hatred: How Radical Professors Help Promote Jew-Hatred

While the pandemic greatly disrupted campus activities in 2020, the student governments of at least three universities managed to focus their efforts to pass BDS resolutions, bills that asked their respective universities to divest from holdings of companies doing...

Dec 26, 2020, 12:00 PM

A Racism Reign of Terror at URI for an Insufficiently Woke Faculty

Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts,” yet another campus engulfed in race hysteria...

Dec 17, 2020, 2:23 AM

Suppressing Free Speech in the Name of Inclusion and Racial Equity at Princeton

The ubiquity of race obsession on campuses in the age of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd showed itself at Princeton University, too, so much so that in September its President, Christopher L. Eisgruber, published a self-flagellating open letter in which...

Dec 9, 2020, 9:42 PM

Zionism Equating White Supremacy in the Age of Trump

Nazifying ideological opponents is a tactic that campus anti-Israel groups and individuals have long used as part of the ongoing cognitive war against Israel, in which Zionism is racism, Israelis are the new Nazis, Gaza is equivalent to the...

Dec 4, 2020, 1:40 AM

Suppressing Academic Freedom in the Name of Inclusion at McGill University

In what has become an increasingly frequent and troubling occurrence on campuses, a McGill University emeritus professor of anthropology, Philip C. Salzman, is under fire by pretentious, virtue-signaling students who wish to hear only viewpoints that conform with their...

Dec 1, 2020, 1:28 AM

Questioning the Diversity Delusion on Race-Obsessed Campuses

When he wryly observed that “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act,” Orwell may well have had academia in mind, where challenging prevailing ideology can have a calamitous effect on one’s reputation and career...

Nov 25, 2020, 2:48 PM

Exporting Racism: The Latest Slander Against Israel

In April, leadership at Tufts University outside Boston was embarrassed when it was disclosed that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the toxic anti-Israel group with a sordid history of campus activism, had been given “The Collaboration Award” by...

Nov 20, 2020, 6:57 PM

If you worked for the Trump administration, you’re not welcome at Harvard

With the intellectually arrogant but now regular behavior common on university campuses, Harvard students last week circulated an open letter to President Lawrence Bacow and Harvard University deans and leadership proposing that Harvard take proactive measures to prevent Trump...

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Richard L. Cravatts, PhD, immediate Past-President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews and Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel and Jews.

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