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Some political forces in Israel urge annexation of all or a major part of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) as was previously done by Israel in 1981 with east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. For example, Naftali Bennett’s Jewish…
read moreLast year, Brooklyn College’s political science department voted to officially affiliate itself with a talk by two advocates of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. In other words, these professors openly endorsed boycotting (among other groups) fellow academics based solely…
read moreChartered in 1951, The American Studies Association (ASA) still describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history.” We will see if there is anything left of the organization’s mission…
read morePHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1 (UPI) — In 1915, John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators to establish the American Association of University Professors, an organization designed to preserve academic freedom and professional values. The…
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This essay is dedicated to both the late David Littman (d. May 20, 2012), and his wife, Gisele Littman, nom de plume, Bat Ye‘or, for their wise, patient, and generous mentorship. Paragons of meticulous scholarship, and unflinching intellectual courage, the…
read moreAMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI ACADEMIC INSTITUITIONS Sponsor: ASA Caucus on Academic and Community Activism As an historian (UCB, 1982) who has taught interdisciplinary courses on American and European culture, I am firmly opposed to…
read moreThis month, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the most largest and most significant organization of academic faculty members in the United States, with over 47,000 members dedicated an entire issue of their online Journal of Academic Freedom to examine the…
read more“But fundamentally, it [Zionism] is the stepchild of anti-Semitism.” – Brian Klug, 2007. “My first visit to Israel in 1980 was hardly typical for a young Jewish woman. On the plane, I found myself sitting next…
read moreThe alleged Hitlerian gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which permitted a gigantic financial swindle whose chief beneficiaries have been the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose…
read moreAs both Jonathan Tobin and Jonathan Marks have previously written here, University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, author of a recent op-ed promoting the “one-state solution” and featured prominently in the New York Times, isn’t an outlier. To the contrary, American academe is full of Lusticks:…
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