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http://chronicle.com/blogs/footnoted/index.php?id=719 What is anti-Semitism? Most any attempt to define the term or, even more controversially, pin the label on someone, brings to mind Justice Potter Stewart’s famously pithy 1964 definition of hard-core pornography: “I know it when I see it.”…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909490.html “A declaration by Doctor Primo Levi, living in Torino, Corso Vittorio 67…” Thus, with characteristic dryness and equally typical humility, begins a document that lay for more than 45 years in the archive of the Yad Vashem Martyrs and…
read morehttp://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2179843,00.html#article_continue Historian blames Himmler, but not Hitler Writer freed from jail says views have ‘crystallised’ Ten months ago he was languishing in an Austrian jail, less than halfway through a three-year sentence with his career – and professional reputation –…
read morehttp://observer.case.edu/Archives/Volume_40/Issue_6/Story_1977/ The anti-Semitic message that appeared on the Thwing Spirit Wall a week ago (see story, page one) was a powerful reminder that the American quest for equality and tolerance is far from over. The incident provoked a school-wide response,…
read morehttp://www.forward.com/articles/11754/ After hitting Europe earlier this month, “The Israel Lobby” is preparing for a frontal assault on the Muslim world. The controversial book by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who accuse the pro-Israel lobby of hijacking American policy,…
read moreOctober 4, 2007 Edition > Section: Opinion > Printer-Friendly Version Suppressed Scholarship BY DANIEL JOHNSONOctober 4, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/63946 Who said this on a visit to Americalast w e e k ? “When you think how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby…
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Is this the face of anti-Semitism? The University of St. Thomas seems to think so Image by Courtesy the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation. Photo by Benny Gool Back in April, when University of St. Thomas staffer Mike Klein informed his…
read morePalestinian academics received with dismay, although not entirely with surprise, the decision by the University and College Union (UCU) to cancel their UK speaking tour, during which they had planned to discuss the academic boycott of Israel with colleagues at…
read moreJohn Esposito, who heads the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University (financed by a $20 million gift from the prince), is on record as defending yet another radical Islamist. The beneficiary of Esposito’s imprimatur this…
read moreIt seems the leaders of Britain’s lecturers have managed to stamp out the possibility of any future academic boycott of Israeli universities before it was even in the offing. The University and College Union said on Friday that it would…
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