Roberta P. Seid

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Dec 10, 2015, 10:43 PM

Beware Scholarly Associations’ Unscholarly Prejudices

As the holiday season approaches, it is also time for annual meetings of different scholarly associations. Recently, the usual activities --presenting research, networking and job hunting -- have been augmented with the latest academic fixation: Israel bashing. Two years...

Apr 20, 2015, 12:36 AM

Building a community network to fight a hate network

“Given your Jewish identity, how would you vote on divestment ?” Such was the question posed to Molly Horwitz this month, a junior at Stanford University, as she sought the endorsement of the Students of Color Coalition in her...

Sep 13, 2014, 10:06 AM

Dear Jon Voight, You Were Not Wrong

Dear Mr. Voight, Rest assured that your brief review of Israel’s history and the present conflict are not “at odds with the actual history” as Professors Gil Hochberg and Mark LeVine would have you believe. Unfortunately, Hochberg and LeVine simply replace...

Aug 1, 2013, 11:07 AM

The anti-Israel lesbian avenger

Professor Sarah Schulman hasn't let facts get in the way of her all-out assault on Zionism and Israel

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About Me

Dr. Roberta P. Seid, an historian, is Education & Research Director of StandWithUs and has taught a course on Israel at the University of California, Irvine