Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=57791&ATypeId=1 An academic who, as a student, wrote a master’s thesis claiming that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz, and questioned the scale of the Holocaust, now holds a senior academic post at the heart of the British defence establishment, the JC has learned. New Zealander Joel Hayward, 44, is now Dean of the…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572520702&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Oxford University’s debating society is being accused of childishness and sensationalism by Jewish groups after inviting participants with alleged anti-Israel backgrounds to support a motion questioning Israel’s right to exist in a debate on Thursday. The title of Thursday’s Middle East debate is “This House believes that the State of Israel has a right…

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2244468,00.html Nur knew that as a bedouin – an Arab nomad – living in poverty in Israel’s Negev desert, the likelihood of going to university was remote. As a woman, it was almost unheard of. Tribal norms and finances ruled it out. So the 18-year-old applied in secret to Ben-Gurion University – and was accepted.…