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When Arielle Mokhtarzadeh and Ben Rosenberg arrived at University of California, Berkeley on November 6 to attend the annual Students of Color Conference, they had no way of knowing that they would be leaving as victims of anti-Semitism. The University of California…
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Note: This post originally was to list just a few statements from university Presidents, but as it has expanded it now will be the repository to gather the statements as a source for others. The title — but not the…
read moreThe University of California (UC) has recently witnessed an alarming escalation in anti-Semitic activity. The many incidents of anti-Semitism last year made repeated national headlines. And school has been back in session a mere handful of weeks and already numerous…
read moreCanary Mission’s sin? The Guardian: Canary Mission went live in mid-May and includes profiles of 54 people, primarily university students and professors, with photos and links to their social media profiles. “It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals…
read moreAfter the holidays, when Congress prepares to reauthorize Title VI of the Higher Education Act, legislators should take a cold, hard look at the case of UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies (CNES), a recipient of millions of dollars of…
read moreAnthropologists are the most recent group of Israel bashers to publicly link their academic identity with their hatred of Israel. Earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the organization’s members rejected by an overwhelming…
read moreAt the heart of the recent controversy over Professor Steven Salaita, whose job offer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was rescinded after dozens of his virulently anti-Zionist tweets came to light, is whether a professor’s speech outside of the…
read moreSANTA CRUZ Gabriel Brahm said he began to sense an anti-Israeli movement in academia as a UC Santa Cruz graduate student in the 1990s. Brahm, then an English doctorate student, said he had marvelous teachers, but worked in a oppressive culture…
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In the 1930s, thousands of Jewish professors were kicked out of German universities because they were Jews. Shamefully, today in the U.S., Jewish professors are threatened with being thrown out of scholarly conferences, prevented from publishing in scholarly journals, and…
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Whether one is for or against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a means to change the current situation in Palestine-Israel, it is important to recognize that boycotts are internationally affirmed and constitutionally protected forms of political expression. As non-violent…
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