The Brooklyn College students who were expelled from a Brooklyn College public event, and publicly chastised by a Brooklyn College official find are deeply disappointed in the response of the school’s report concerning the event, based on the investigation it…
read moreNew York City Councilman Lew Fidler has sent a letter to CUNY, ripping into an investigation it conducted of a February BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) event aimed at Israel on Brooklyn College’s campus. Fidler, a Brooklyn Democrat, and colleagues from…
read moreThis past February, in the final act of Brooklyn College’s BDS fiasco, four Jewish students were kicked out of the talk. (Brooklyn’s Political Science Department had formally voted to affiliate itself with the talk, which featured two speakers who advocated a…
read moreThey meet in small groups on campus; funded by foreign money. They understand that this method of operation gives them more influence than any act of physical violence would. They are young people who convince others; they are builders of…
read morePronouncements attempting to appeal to the conscience of academics supportive of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement often depict Israel as a Nazi-like state. These views—once labeled extreme—have become increasingly mainstream as academics call for Israel’s destruction, not by…
read moreWhen I was a student at Brooklyn College, eons ago, the subjects of free speech and academic freedom were tied into the country’s mortal fear of Communism. One of the most heated issues on campus centered on the firing of Harry…
read moreTo shed light on the passions generated by the Brooklyn College program that promoted the so-called BDS movement, the Daily News opens its Op-Ed page to one of the evening’s speakers. BDS proponent Omar Barghouti writes of the movement’s motivations…
read moreChancellor Matthew GoldsteinOffice of the Chancellor535 East 80th StreetNew York, NY 10075Phone: 212.794.5311Fax: 212.794.5671chancellor@cuny.edu Open Letter to CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein: I write this letter calling for the resignation of Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould and Paisley Currah, chair…
read moreOn February 7th, the Department of Political Science of Brooklyn College and various student organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-sponsored a Forum entitled “Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti: BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights.” “BDS” stands for…
read moreA few weeks ago, the New York Times reported Pro Palestinian speakers attract protests outside. The event at Brooklyn college was a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) event focused on delegitimizing Israel. To read the New York Times account, one doesn’t get…
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