SANTA 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…
read moreThe Israel-Gaza conflict that took place over the summer has had a ripple effect onto U.S. college campuses, with reported incidents of anti-Semitism there rising sharply after the war. Neili Eggert, a junior at University of North Carolina Charlotte, has…
read morePolice at Northeastern University have launched an investigation after swastikas were drawn on two fliers posted on campus to publicize a lecture this week by an Israeli military official.Northeastern president Joseph E. Aoun condemned the incident in an e-mail to…
read moreBERLIN – The student spokesman for the city of Offenbach’s school system, Max Moses Bonifer, resigned his post because German Arab and Turkish students attacked him and threatened to kill him. The German daily FAZ reported on Wednesday that Bonifer…
read moreIs the academic boycott against Israel anti-Semitic? Variations of that question come up again and again in a new book of essays, The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm (Wayne State University…
read moreAt the conclusion of the latest installment of the endless Arab war against Israel, the leaders of Hamas simultaneously accused Israel of “genocide” against the residents of Gaza and took to the streets, dancing, ululating, and jubilating in celebration of…
read moreAs yet more evidence that academics are regularly able to engage in what George Orwell sardonically referred to as “doublethink,” “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them,” this month 40 professors…
read moreTen months after the American Studies Association adopted a formal resolution—supported by a minority of the association’s membership but avidly embraced by the organization’s leadership—to boycott Israeli academe, the results are readily apparent. In fact, the repercussions were felt immediately…
read moreThe American Studies Association appears to have backed down from a threat to boycott Israeli academic institutions at its annual conference next month, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The Post spoke to CeCe Heil and David French of the American…
read moreWhen the American Studies Association adopted its Israel boycott in February, it was “credited… for giving moment to the boycott campaign.”Now the ASA has significantly reversed its boycott of Israeli scholars – and is indeed trying to claim it never…
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