When activist Ben White spoke at Brooklyn College last week on the topic of “Israel: Apartheid, not Democracy,” there were no evictions, no disruptions, no names mysteriously left off the list of RSVPs. Unlike a similarly controversial event there last year, there…
read moreDoes Brooklyn College have a Jewish problem? For the second time this year, the university’s political science department has outraged the Jewish community by agreeing to co-sponsor events hosted by Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization whose…
read moreBrooklyn College is again provoking passions, playing host this week to an anti-Israel activist who many, citing his published writings, believe to be anti-Semitic. Ben White, who describes himself as a writer, freelance journalist and researcher on his Twitter page,…
read moreThe American Association of University Professors, which boasts some 47,000 members from around the nation’s campuses, is facing criticism from advocates of Israel after it devoted almost the entire current issue of its online journal to the subject of boycotting Israeli…
read morePHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1 (UPI) — In 1915, John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators to establish the American Association of University Professors, an organization designed to preserve academic freedom and professional values. The…
read moreTammi Rossman-Benjamin lives and teaches in the belly of the beast, and although she is on faculty, her position as lecturer of Hebrew Language at the University of California, Santa Cruz means she has practically no political pull. But Rossman-Benjamin…
read moreI hate it when I have a book in press and people keep writing about the subject anyway. You would think that they would have the courtesy to hold their fire until I have had my say. I raise the…
read moreLast week, I criticized the most recent issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom (JAF), a journal of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Mainly activists in and sympathizers with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement author that issue of…
read moreBoston’s Northeastern University responded on Friday to allegations from students of rampant anti-Semitism by faculty on campus, after The Algemeiner pressed the school on why it hadn’t answered a formal letter sent three months ago from the Zionist Organization of America,…
read moreOver half of Canada’s universities fail to adequately protect free speech and the Arab-Israeli conflict looms large over these failures, a study released Tuesday claims. The Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms graded 45 schools in its 2013 Campus Freedom…
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