Alan Shepard denounces boycotts after undergraduates back the idea. Concordia University president Alan Shepard has denounced academic boycotts in principle in the wake of undergraduates at his school narrowly voting in favour of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS)…
read moreI would like to express how impressed I am by the democratic atmosphere at Concordia University, which continues to be fostered by the CSU team. This invaluable trait seems to be a natural outcome of the Quebec student movement, which…
read moreProfessors are lining up to endorse academic boycotts, and student groups regularly stage public anti-Israel protests and increasingly harass pro-Israel and Jewish students. How much of the biased, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic education at universities is government funded? A new report…
read moreThe Nazis invented the Jewish boycott — and went on from there to the Holocaust. This is the wrong boycott in the wrong place at the wrong time. As you doubtless know, there has been, and continues to be, an…
read moreYom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, has become a yearly tradition in which we reflect on those lives senselessly taken amidst the horrors of the Holocaust. It also reminds us of the fragility, as well as the vulnerability, of human…
read morePlease add your signature to this Call by sending an e-mail with your name, affiliation (if desired), and location to boycottTAUfilmconference@gmail.com. Affirming a commitment to the pursuit of social justice and to the right of political dissent and intellectual freedom that…
read moreThe American Studies Association’s rushed deadline of December 15 to vote on boycotting Israeli universities has provoked intense debate about the move and the manipulative tactics deployed, including exploiting this time of year when professors are busy grading. But the…
read moreThe visit last month by Israel’s prime minister to the United States, which included dueling speeches by President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is dead and can be resurrected only with great difficulty. While in…
read moreApproved December 10, 2002: Revised and Reapproved March 24, 2011 The modern university has historically striven to be an honest forum for competing ideas, freedom of speech and academic freedom. It has prided itself on being a citadel for peoples…
read moreThe modern university has historically striven to be an honest forum for competing ideas, freedom of speech and academic freedom. It has prided itself on being a citadel for peoples of all beliefs, persuasions, faiths and ethnic groups to come…
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