Last fall, it was an assigned book that brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict home to Brooklyn College. A wealthy alumnus said he was cutting the college out of his will because all incoming freshmen had been asked to read “How Does…
read moreA recent Opinion piece, “Exclude Me At Your Own Peril” (Oct. 26) by a fellow Columbia University student, depicted the ostensible fragmentation and dissolution of the pro-Israel movement, especially a Columbia. It described the necessity to acknowledge the conflict at…
read moreResponses to SPME President Peter Haas’s Letter to SPME Faculty Forum Network SPME friends – If divestment plans of this sort find their way to any of our Michigan campuses, please be sure to let me know, and I include…
read moreThe Professional Staff Congress (PSC), a local of the AmericanFederation of Teachers (AFT) that represents more than 20,000 academicand staff employees of the City University of New York (CUNY), isholding an election; ballots are due to be mailed on April…
read morehttp://www.investigativeproject.org/996/hampshire-divests-from-israel-so Reprinted with permission from the author. Several months ago, a rabidly anti Israel group on the Hampshire College campus began a campaign to try to get the college to divest from six companies that they claim helped “the Israeli…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=925321&contrassID=0&subContrassID=0 Professor Johnson, a noted critic of ‘groupthink’ in the academic world, and author of Until Proven Innocent, is now teaching in Israel. Readers can send questions. KC Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY…
read moreDePaul University on Friday formally denied tenure to Norman G. Finkelstein, who has taught political science there while attracting an international following – of both fans and critics – for his attacks on Israeli policies and the “Holocaust industry.” Finkelstein’s…
read moreIn her 1951 best seller, “The Groves of Academe,” Mary McCarthyfictionalized a failed academic who, realizing he wouldn’t get tenure,became a communist so that he could claim that he was being denied tenurebecause he was a Red rather than a…
read moreAmerican Liberalism and the Euston Manifesto Written by Jeffrey Herf et al. Tuesday, 12 September 2006 We are signers or supporters in the United States of the Euston Manifesto and its reassertion of liberal values. We are signers or supporters…
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