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NEW BRUNSWICK — Hundreds of “eviction” notices were slid under Rutgers dorm and apartment doors the night of Oct. 6. The notices have a municipal code number in the top-right corner, including a case and warrant number. The single sheet of paper…
read moreIn the preface to his important new book, The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Anti-Semitism, former Harvard professor Daniel Jonah Goldhagen says he considered many options before conceptualizing anti-Semitism as the devil. He realized some people might think…
read moreNot long ago, The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) underscored its longstanding commitment to the free exchange of ideas by chiding the Association for Asian American Studies, which voted last year to support an academic boycott against Israel. Apparently, this rebuke…
read moreTammi Rossman-Benjamin stood before the board of trustees, the highest governing authority of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, and in her allotted two minutes stated her case against a professor who levels consistently hostile charges against Israel on…
read moreSome 1,000 students at Rutgers New Brunswick campus woke up to an alarming eviction notice, informing the students to vacate within 3 days time or have their belongings destroyed. The Rutgers New Brunswick chapter of “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) posted…
read moreIt’s that time again. In my office, September is one of the busiest months of the year. My students, located all around North America, are returning to college. Almost as soon as they arrive on campus, the stories start pouring…
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 moreAbstract The language may be deceptively conciliatory but the meaning of the BDS message is of intransigence. The rhetoric of this movement conceals a programme of ‘resistance’, a call to destabilize the status quo through unremitting public agitation over a…
read moreIf you want to understand how the far left controls campuses, consider this story. There is no university more supportive of the Arab nationalist (historically), Islamist, and anti-Israel line in the United States than Georgetown’s programs on Middle East studies. Every…
read moreWhat do the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the City of Frankfurt, its former mayor Petra Roth from the Conservative Party (Christian Democratic…
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