More and more, we hear from faculty and students about the need to have an “open tent” or a “big tent,” of ideas and opinions specifically, when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. While the nature of public discourse demands…
read moreJewish anti-Israel professor Judith Butler will be featured by New York’s Jewish Museum in an event about existentialist Jewish writer Franz Kafka, and her critics on Wednesday were quick to call out the institution and its chief curator for their “Kafka-esque” move.…
read moreMalcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference ofPresidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said on Monday that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is “the 21st century form of 20th century anti-Semitism.” “It is the same manifestation, except [it is]…
read moreFirst there were the book-burnings, then came the boycott of Jewish businesses, after that, with mounting violence,Kristallnacht; the stage for the Holocaust was set. That was in Hitler’s Germany, and nothing, even the vilest and most despicable actions of various…
read moreThe backlash continues against the anti-Israel boycott resolution that the American Studies Association adopted last month. Over 200 university presidents have distanced themselves from it. Numerous other organizations, including the American Association of University Professors, have condemned it too. Some…
read moreProf. Stephen Norwood On September 5, 2012, at the Democratic National Convention, chairman Antonio Villaraigosa asked those assembled if they approved of an amendment to the Democratic Party’s platform affirming Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Half the crowd – if not…
read moreIsraeli artist, playwright and professor Dahn Hiuni on Tuesday said he launched a new movement called RDS –Retractions and Disavowals in Scholarship – to encourage academics to revisit their work to excise references from scholars who have since lost credibility as public…
read moreIn 2013 the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, David Ward, after signing the Book of Remembrance in the Houses of Parliament on Holocaust Memorial Day, made use of the Holocaust to criticise Israel and ‘the Jews’ by equating Israel with…
read moreTwo phenomena: anti-Semitism and American class conflict. Is there any connection between them? In a letter to this newspaper, the noted venture capitalist Tom Perkins called attention to certain parallels, as he saw them, between Nazi Germany’s war against the Jews…
read moreIt’s Gaza in the Canadian Rockies on campuses. While Canadian PM Harper, a true friend of Israel, “gets it,” the politically correct students at the University of Calgary do not. They believe that Jewish students deserve to be heckled, silenced,…
read more
