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PHILADELPHIA, 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:…
read moreSeveral commentators have now weighed in on Ian Lustick’s op-ed, “The Two State Illusion,” which the New York Times gave the front page of its Sunday Review section. In the op-ed Lustick, a professor of political science at the University…
read moreDr. Hassan Rouhani’s surprising sweeping victory in Iran’s June 14 presidential election marks an important, refreshing change in Iranian politics. His public statements during the campaign and since his election reflect different positions from those sounded regularly during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s…
read moreSamuel Sandler, an aeronautical engineer and head of the Jewish community in Versailles, France, announced a few weeks ago that he’d had the local synagogue registered as a national landmark. “My feeling is that our congregation will be gone…
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