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Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told a crowd of about 200 at the University of Baltimore School of Law that the BDS movement will not succeed in pressuring universities to boycott Israel. “Everyone knows BDS in the U.S.…
read more“Academic Freedom at Risk: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement Against Israel” will be presented on Monday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Moot Court Room in the University of Baltimore’s John and Frances Angelos…
read moreAndrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College, is the latest casualty in the campus-based culture wars. Dr. Pessin is a well-liked and much published professor, self-described as the “only Jewish professor on campus who openly advocates for Israel.” And now,…
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Tel Aviv University campus Last week I was privileged to speak to two very different audiences about the Middle East and Israel. Though the talks had the same title, “Understanding the Middle East: Iran, the Sunni-Shi’ite War, the Israeli- Palestinian…
read moreCognitive actions against Israel fuels the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement’s war against Israel. Recently StandWithUs (SWU) held a conference on the BDS to clarify the movement’s actions against the State of Israel and pave the way for an aggressive…
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he first black American president marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, 50 years after “Bloody Sunday,” one of the darkest periods of wanton police violence and widespread denial of basic rights for blacks in America’s…
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For years, Israel lobby groups have slammed the Palestinians’ call for a boycott of Israeli universities as an attack on “academic freedom”. Now the mask has well and truly slipped. Next month, the University of Southampton in the UK will…
read moreLast December I wrote about Open Hillel, a movement founded in 2012 to oppose Hillel’s Standards of Partnership. Hillel International is the most prominent campus Jewish organization, with over 500 college and university affiliates. Their standards for sponsoring speakers or…
read moreLast week, Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and president emeritus of Harvard University, and former Secretary of the treasury, delivered a lecture on “Academic Freedom and Anti-Semitism” at Columbia University. He recalled that in 2002, when…
read moreThis past week I delivered a lecture at Columbia University on academic freedom and anti-Semitism. I argued that it is the essence of academic freedom that all members of our community can hold whatever views they wish and express them…
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