Nothing is more clichéd in higher education than the selective invocation of freedom of speech. When students or professors challenge campus orthodoxies, administrators find a way to silence them. But when speakers take positions that are comfortable to the campus…
read moreDuring Chanukah, two students defaced a Menorah at Northeastern University, and Northeastern’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) led an ugly anti-Israel/pro-Hamas rally in Copley Square. One observer noted “the virulence of the chants and messages on the placards… suggest that more sinister hatreds…
read moreEditorial Note: Professor Jake Lynch, director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University refused to sponsor an application by Associate Professor Dan Avnon from the Hebrew University for a Sir Zelman Cowen Fellowship to carry out research…
read moreNo sooner had the California State Assembly voted on and passed House Resolution 35 (HR 35) that calls upon California public universities to “increase their efforts to swiftly and unequivocally condemn acts of anti-Semitism” than the University of California Students…
read moreAs we send our daughters and sons off to a new year of college, are they entering an environment that is friendly to Jews? Is their college a place where they can be who they are Jewishly? Is what they…
read moreChancellor Charles B. ReedCalifornia State University Chancellor’s Office401 Golden ShoreLong Beach, CA 90802-4210 SUBJECT: Biased actions and writings of CSUN Provost and Interim President Harry Hellenbrand Dear Chancellor Reed: We members of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace…
read moreI’m from France.” That statement doesn’t bring up any political implications – no arguments, no heated debates, no existential questions. Yet “I’m from Israel” elicits a rather different response. This simple act, stating your country of origin, should not evoke…
read moreIn a recent lecture at the University of Oslo, Norwegian sociologist Professor Johan Galtung claimed there was a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control…
read moreThe organized Jewish community in the US has just cast a big vote of confidence for civil rights lawsuits to protect Jewish students. This is surprising because recent indications were that it would go the other way. The Jewish Council…
read moreAmericans for Peace and Tolerance has released a documentary on Northeastern’s Holocaust Awareness Week, and Charles Jacobs has published a column in the Jewish Advocate summarizing his criticisms of it. In response, Northeastern Provost Stephen Director has complained that Jacobs “cherry-picked his examples”: The present-day facts are…
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