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Intersectionality didn’t originate as an anti-Jewish idea. Coined in 1989 by Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in the context of critical race theory, and with the intention of clarifying the distinction between the overlapping nature of racial and sexual…
read morePublished back in April, the most recent special issue of Israel Studies hit a nerve so raw that it is still reverberating in the pages of online journals and newspapers. As co-editors of this publication, who conceived of the project “Word Crimes: Reclaiming the Language…
read moreGriffin Hall of Williams College on Main Street in Williamstown, Mass. Credit: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia. Williams College has reached a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education in lieu of an investigation over the student government rejecting a new…
read moreMunster. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) The student parliament for the University of Münster in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia passed a resolution on Tuesday against the BDS campaign targeting Israel. “We clearly position ourselves against any form of antisemitism…
read moreJohn Strawson was a contributor to the Word Crimes issue of Israel Studies Journal. He also taught in the Law Center at Birzeit University on the West Bank from 1996-2006. In this personal reflection on the controversy he argues that…
read moreThe following is Judea Pearl’s speech at the fourth annual UCLA Jewish Graduation on June 16. Dean [Maria] Blandizzi, friends, families, distinguished guests and especially you, the graduates. I am deeply honored by the opportunity to address this graduating class,…
read moreEighty civil-rights, religious and education organizations on Thursday wrote to California State University (CSU) chancellor Timothy White to alert him about San Francisco State University professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s “hateful” posting and to demand that he take immediate action to address…
read more(photo credit: CBS/Facebook) Times Square has been a popular target for a number of Muslim terrorist plots and attacks. The latest one was allegedly the work of Ashiqul Alam, a Muslim settler living in Queens. Sources told CBS2 that Ashiqul Alam was…
read moreThe U.S. Department of Education announced on Monday that it will investigate an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conference in March hosted jointly by Duke University and the University of North Carolina. This was in response to U.S. Rep. George Holding sending U.S.…
read moreEditors’ note: Jason D. Hill is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. Below is his Open Letter to Attorney General, William Barr making the argument to disband Students for Justice in Palestine and all BDS movements. Mr. Attorney General, On…
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