Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

“Never Again”

http://omedia.org/Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=2658 Less than a month after Columbia University gave Holocaust denier, Iranian president Ahmadinejad, a platform in the name of freedom of expression, the Oxford University debating society has contacted Holocaust denier David Irving using the same argument and asked…

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DeGioia Defends Boycott Criticism

http://www.thehoya.com/news/101207/news1.cfm Facing growing criticism from a Law Center professor, University President John J. DeGioia has stood by his decision in recent weeks to criticize a proposed boycott of Israeli universities over the summer. DeGioia’s criticism, which he expressed in an…

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Israeli Historian Wins German Book Trade’s 2007 Peace Prize

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912660.html Israeli historian Saul Friedlander was awarded the top prize at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair on Sunday in recognition of his narratives documenting the Nazi Holocaust. “Saul Friedlander gave a voice to the grievances and cries of those human…

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Critics of Israel Lobby Hold Parley

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071016finkelsteinmearsheimer.html Several of the pro-Israel lobby’s strongest critics gathered in Chicago to fight what they described as Jewish efforts to stifle academic freedom. CHICAGO (JTA) — Collectively they have published more than a hundred books and countless articles. Four are…

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Walt and Mearsheimer- Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On The Israel Lobby

Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby By Eric Chinski, Farrar, Straus and GirouxPosted on October 16, 2007, Printed on October 16, 2007http://www.alternet.org/story/65271/ Eric Chinski, the editor of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s provocative new…

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Saul Friedländer – Das Recht auf Fassungslosigkeit

http://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/saul-friedlaender_aid_135392.html Der israelische Historiker und Holocaust-Überlebende Saul Friedländer wird 75 – und erhält den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Saul Friedländer hat in dieser Woche gleich zwei Mal Grund zum Feiern Wer aus der Geschichte lernen will, dem genügt die wissenschaftliche…

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Anti-Semitic Drawing Found in Columbia Bathroom

http://www.amny.com/news/local/ny-nycolu125409940oct12,0,2323618.story Anti-Semitic drawings were found yesterday in a bathroom at Columbia University, prompting the school’s president to denounce the second hate crime on campus in three days as police investigate the incident. “Despite the irrational, destructive hatred that persists in…

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