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In their recent “Open Letter Demanding the Overhaul of McGill’s Statement of Academic Freedom,” the Anthropology Students Association and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association of McGill University have schooled us about the new anthropology. Here are some of its dimensions:…
read moreIn what has become an increasingly frequent and troubling occurrence on campuses, a McGill University emeritus professor of anthropology and SPME board member, Philip C. Salzman, is under fire by pretentious, virtue-signaling students who wish to hear only viewpoints that…
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Last year, at a national conference in Manhattan, New York University student Adela Cojab described a pattern of harassment that she and other Jewish students were facing on her campus. After hearing her speak, as was my job, I informed…
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Scattered across the city, country and world, community members read University President Morton Schapiro’s Monday email condemning recent student protests. Minutes later, messages of shock, support and confusion flooded Facebook feeds, Twitter timelines and Reddit pages alike. Beyond the absolute…
read moreNew York University and the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a landmark settlement over charges of antisemitism on the university’s campus, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) announced on Thursday. Adela…
read moreNew York University (NYU) agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education on Sept. 15 over a complaint filed in 2019 alleging that the university improperly handled instances of anti-Semitism on campus. Adela Cojab, who was an NYU…
read moreCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have instituted an ethnic studies curriculum for public high schools that critics have slammed as being biased and antisemitic. In his veto message, Newsom stated that he supported including ethnic…
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Arizona State University. Credit: Flickr. Arizona State University’s student government has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The resolution to adopt the widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism passed on Tuesday in a 15-1-3 vote. In a statement…
read moreAntisemitism is still a major problem on American college campuses, according to a group of participants in an online roundtable held Thursday by the Endowment for Middle East Truth. Each of the panelists condemned the “orthodoxy” on campuses that posits Jews…
read moreIN AN ONLINE program next week, the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University will host “A Conversation With Leila Khaled,” an event it is promoting as a “historic” encounter with a prominent “Palestinian feminist, militant, and leader.”…
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