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Sitting in my office almost forty floors above ground level in midtown Manhattan last week, I was astounded to be drawn away from my work by chants of “Free free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will…
read moreNoam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist who has gained a reputation as one of Israel’s fiercest critics, believes that those advocating for a boycott of Israel are misguided since their efforts will not be enough to effect a change in policies…
read moreThe latest anti-Israel trend to gain momentum on college campuses has been the distribution of mock eviction notices in dormitories by members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Whether or not the notices have specifically targeted Jewish students, experts…
read moreUniversities have often been the places for investigating, analyzing and debating important issues of the day. But they sometimes end up being pushed to do more than think and talk about such matters. Increasingly, administrators are being pushed to take…
read moreMay saw the deployment of new campus BDS techniques, which were temporarily thwarted by rapid responses by community and university leaders. These pushed BDS closer toward lawfare –legal and administrative means to attack Israel and its supporters. They also indicate…
read moreLOS ANGELES (JTA) – UCLA has some proud moments in the history of civil liberties. After World War II, UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley, were the hotbeds of opposition to an anti-communist loyalty oath that California tried to…
read moreThe spiritual father of the fanatical incitement against the Jews was Abner of Burgos, a Jewish kabbalist and scholar who converted to Christianity in about 1321, upon experiencing a deep religious and spiritual crisis, and became known as Alfonso of…
read moreThe folks at the Daily Bruin (UCLA’s student newspaper) recently published the map (click here to see the map) that is supposed to track the success (in green) and failure (in red) of BDS initiatives within student governments. Now I could pick a…
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Universities have often been the places for investigating, analyzing and debating important issues of the day. But they sometimes end up being pushed to do more than think and talk about such matters. Increasingly, administrators are being pushed to…
read moreBy this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students…
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