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David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Program on Arab Politics. Confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2019, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs through January…
read moreThis webinar was held November 22, 2022 and led by Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi. He discussed his contribution on “Antisemitic Rhetoric in Urdu on YouTube” from the recently published “Antisemitism on Social Media” (London: Routledge, 2022). For his work on this chapter, Dr.…
read more This webinar was held October 20, 2022 and led by Neetu Arnold, Senior Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars (NAS). Middle East Studies Centers (MESC) have strayed from their mission to objectively study the Middle East and Islam, a new…
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The fall semester ends with BDS and antisemitism roiling campus and national politics. From celebrities like Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, the continuing scandals regarding the exclusion of Jewish speakers by the UC Berkeley Law School student government, to the…
read moreWhen: Thursday, December 8, 2022 Where: 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan. Proof of vaccination is required for entry. RSVP: This event is free and open to the public. Moderated by David Brodsky Chairperson, the Department of Judaic Studies…
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An assessment of the factors triggering this fifth round of voting in the past three and a half years. Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government, Emerita at Smith College where she…
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KC Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Johnson is a trained historian who specializes in US political, diplomatic, and legal affairs.
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The fall semester begins with BDS at the center of campus and national politics. BDS supporting candidates had mixed results in primaries but key figures were successful and will likely be reelected in November. On campus a series of lawsuits…
read moreCommittee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the AAUP just published a problematic “Statement” in which it denounced the threat to academic freedom from two – it claims – closely related efforts by “conservative” legislation to suppress freedom of…
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Samuel J. Abrams is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on questions of related civic and political culture and American ideologies. He is concurrently a professor of politics and social science at Sarah Lawrence…
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