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Nov 8, 2017, 6:24 PM
The Trump Nominee for Education’s Office of Civil Rights Poised to Take on the World’s Oldest Hatred
No sooner had President Trump nominated Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law, to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, than extremist anti-Israel groups began...
Nov 6, 2017, 9:56 PM
‘The Right to Maim’: Jasbir Puar’s Pseudo-Scholarship and Blood Libels against Israel
Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously announced that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and drank their blood during...
Oct 26, 2017, 1:33 AM
Normalizing Anti-Semitism in Student Governments
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...
Oct 5, 2017, 8:11 PM
Professors Support Academic Free Speech, But Only For Those Whose Views They Like
As the left exhibits paroxysms of moral outrage since the presidential election, the symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome are increasingly evident on university campuses. One such instance of this irrationality was on full display in August at the University of...
Sep 16, 2017, 8:36 PM
The Campus Left’s New Obsession with Racism and White Supremacy Now Includes Israel’s Supporters, Too
Long before the hooded, masked, and dressed-in-black Antifa thugs marauded across campuses such as Berkeley, other supposed progressive campus activists had been raging an ideological war against ideas with which they disagreed. They are, as former Yale President, A....
Apr 28, 2017, 5:55 PM
What is the law on campus free speech and what should Berkeley — and all universities — do to protect It?
The current debate at Berkeley over the contested appearance of Ann Coulter as a guest speaker, of course, is emblematic of the larger, serious issue of which views should be permitted on campus and which, because they are deemed...
Apr 19, 2017, 10:51 PM
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The Careless Anti-Semitism of Morally Incoherent Educators
The shocking class exercise displays the careless anti-Semitism of morally incoherent educators
Mar 30, 2017, 6:29 AM
The New Jacobins: Where Israel Is Involved, the Suppression of Campus Speech Is an Old Story
When Chester Evans Finn, Jr., a former United States Assistant Secretary of Education, observed in 1989 that university campuses had become “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” he was anticipating a troubling and prevalent trend now poisoning...
Feb 7, 2017, 3:50 AM
Berkeley, identity politics, and the progressive assault on campus free speech
Of the many intellectual perversions currently taking root on college campuses, perhaps none is more contradictory to what should be one of higher education’s core values than the suppression of free speech. With alarming regularity, speakers are shouted down,...
Jan 30, 2017, 10:49 PM
On the Wrong Side of History
Of the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts, which, in their present form, are almost exclusively targeted at Israeli scholars and institutions. In the latest example, at...
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Richard L. Cravatts, PhD, immediate Past-President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews (A David Horowitz Freedom Center book).