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The Brooklyn College political science department is officially and emphatically endorsing an on-campus Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) anti-Israel program at which Brooklyn College students and the public will be forcefully encouraged to endorse and promote BDS against the state…
read moreThe international campaign to delegitimize Israel by subjecting the Jewish state—and the Jewish State alone—to boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has now come to the most unlikely of places: Brooklyn College. The political science department of that college has voted…
read moreWhy is Brooklyn College’s political science department officially sponsoring a one-sided event that calls for divestment, boycotts and sanctions against Israel? On Feb. 7, the college will be hosting a “forum” at which speakers will call for Israel to be…
read moreThe controversy surrounding the political science department at Brooklyn College, which is co-sponsoring a BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions)against Israel event on campus along with several other organizations that will feature devout anti-Israel activists Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler, has elicited…
read moreThere’s another BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) controversy brewing in Brooklyn, this time at the publicly-funded Brooklyn College. Brooklyn College’s political science department has decided to co-sponsor an anti-Israel BDS conference, despite growing outrage at the school and department’s tendency…
read moreI am sorry to see you reproduce Doug Chandler’s article on the latest controversy at Brooklyn College. Mr. Chandler has misunderstood/misrepresented the situation. Brooklyn College has had a series of unpleasant events and confrontations in recent years and within this…
read moreOfficials at Brooklyn College are hoping that their decision to rehire a controversial adjunct professor, reversing a decision made last week, will end the episode and reunite the community, they said in a statement issued Monday. But at least one…
read moreBrooklyn College officials Monday backed down and rehired a professor fired days ago when a local pol complained the teacher spewed anti-Israel ideology. “I’m elated,” said Kristofer Petersen-Overton. “This is an incredible victory for academic freedom in the United States…
read moreBrooklyn College officials announced Monday that they have re-hired adjunct professor Kristofer Petersen-Overton afterdismissing him last week for an alleged lack of experience, a move that set off a fiery discussion on academic freedom. On Jan. 27, Petersen-Overton was told…
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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer,” one of the “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney…
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