This book is available through SPME Mart ***** Foreword by Natan Sharansky (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2007) The new century has seen many attempts to discriminate against Israel, its academic institutions, and its scholars in several Western countries. This…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847323863&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Likening anti-Semitism to pollution, Manfred Gerstenfeld makes a distinction between that “which comes out of a chimney and spreads over a huge area,” and that “which comes from the exhaust pipes of millions of cars, each one contributing its…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847323863&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Likening anti-Semitism to pollution, Manfred Gerstenfeld makes a distinction between that “which comes out of a chimney and spreads over a huge area,” and that “which comes from the exhaust pipes of millions of cars, each one contributing its…
read morehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/motto-of-antiisrael-acad_b_74414.html Do anti-Israel professors “tremble in fear” when they criticize Israel at Harvard and other American universities? Not likely, if you have any sense of what’s going on on college campuses today where Israel-bashing is rampant among hard left faculty…
read morehttp://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/11/21/barbara-kay-on-the-college-campus-anti-semitism-s-last-refuge.aspx A1930s Jewish joke has two Polish yeshiva students walking down the street, suddenly aware of a pair of anti-Semitic thugs behind them brandishing sticks. The boys flee, the hooligans in pursuit. As the chase continues, one Jew asks the…
read moreAs president of the University of Alberta, I join my colleagues at McGill University, York University, the University of Montreal, Concordia University, University of British Columbia, and several US universities in condemning the boycott of Israeli universities and scholars proposed…
read moreCompiled by Clive Seligman, Ph.D., President, Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarshipwww.safs.ca Statement by Concordia University President, Claude Lajeunesse, concerning the proposed boycott of Israeli universities by the United Kingdom’s University and College Union (UCU) The fundamental mission of universities,…
read moreFor comments on Concordia, see http://www.safs.ca/jan2005/furedy.html, And for general advice to those who think that submitting to threats is a way of avoiding them, see Kipling’s “Davengeld” (see e.g., http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/920 ; for the text of the poem, see http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/english_history/danegeld.html ;…
read moreAn escalating war of words between teachers and defenders of Israel reached a dramatic, if anticlimactic, conclusion last night. After protesters picketed outside a Toronto local of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, members of District 12 defeated a motion…
read moreWhat do Concordia University in Montreal, San Francisco State University, the University of California at Irvine, Columbia University, SOAS in London, the recently merged British academic teachers’ unions AUT and NATFHE, and MAUP University in Kiev have in common? Over…
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