What’s up with New York University? For the third time this spring, NYU has been in the national spotlight for anti-Semitism. In March, NYU Professor Lisa Duggan organized a conference at NYU whose sole purpose was to promote a boycott…
read moreAs it goes, most alumni enjoy their college or university from afar. They donate, help recruit students, hang out at reunions and share great stories. And, that’s exactly what Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York was to me. Coming from…
read moreA Temple University professor who questioned the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and engaged in what human rights observers described as anti-Semitic discourse is entitled to promote his controversial ideas, according to a university spokesman who spoke…
read moreThe Palestinian Authority’s move against the BDS activists shows that it considers the movement a threat to Palestinian interests.A Palestinian Authority official in Ramallah explained that BDS and its followers make the Palestinians appear as if they are all radicals…
read moreIt has become fashionable to label Israel as an apartheid state. Bishop Tutu has been in the vanguard of this libel, together with his calls for boycotting Israel. I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid years and witnessed…
read moreOn March 8, 2014, a panel at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York discussed the issue of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel in response to an earlier panel held there in support of such…
read moreSunny Singh campaigned for UCLA student body president this spring, pledging to push for mental health resources, increase graduate school opportunities and make student government more efficient. But try as he might, Singh believed his campaign kept getting overshadowed by…
read moreThe administration at the University of California, Los Angeles is taking no sides regarding recent moves by its campus branch of Students for Justice in Palestine to try to exclude students who have taken trips to Israel sponsored by certain Jewish-affiliated groups…
read moreIn an era when acceptance of Jews in virtually every facet of society in the United States is universal, discussions about anti-Semitism are often understandably shelved in favor of those about prejudice about other, less successful minority groups. But when…
read moreLast week, I wrote about the Vassar chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which quoted an anti-Semitic author, writing for an anti-Semitic publication, to this effect: “Of course, mainstream media hasbarats have been around for decades, as have ‘hasbaratchiks,’ fifth-columns in…
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