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King’s students will vote on a controversial anti-Israel BDS motion at their Student General Meeting next Tuesday The anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions movement has yet again reared its head at KCL.The motion, which has resurfaced after it was first proposed…
read moreThe recent controversy over Scarlett Johansson’s endorsement of SodaStream, an Israeli company with a factory in the West Bank, and her subsequent refusal to be bullied into repudiating the company, has cast a spotlight on the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and…
read moreThere’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head…
read moreFour recent incidents illustrate how American Jewish institutions are manipulated to subvert support for Israel. Call it the fairness trap. Vassar Hillel announced it would join its counterpart at Swarthmore and reject Hillel International’s guidelines prohibiting anti-Israel speakers and activities.…
read moreJewish anti-Israel professor Judith Butler will be featured by New York’s Jewish Museum in an event about existentialist Jewish writer Franz Kafka, and her critics on Wednesday were quick to call out the institution and its chief curator for their “Kafka-esque” move.…
read moreThe leadership of Israeli academic institutions sent a letter of gratitude to the American academic institutions who condemned the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions which was passed late last year. Menachem Ben-Sasson, chair of the Council of…
read moreIsraeli artist, playwright and professor Dahn Hiuni on Tuesday said he launched a new movement called RDS –Retractions and Disavowals in Scholarship – to encourage academics to revisit their work to excise references from scholars who have since lost credibility as public…
read moreI’ve attended more than three dozen conventions of the Modern Language Association, but this year’s was different. And that’s not because I was MLA president, organized a forum, and delivered my presidential address. It was because I became the…
read moreAs one shocking example of how ideologically detached the professoriate of U.S. universities have become from the thought and beliefs of normal citizens, at a 2003 “peace rally” at Columbia University held to denounce America’s initiation of the liberation of…
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With this article I begin my 12th year as an opinion columnist for The Indianapolis Star. Of the more than 190 published columns, a good number have addressed the Middle East. Over the years I have tried to bring a…
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