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Ken Marcus’s detailed and balanced response to Ken Stern and Cary Nelson makes it clear that they are naive in their belief that the so-called “Israel-bashing” that has been taking place on several American university campuses is mere “anti-Israel discourse,”…
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On April 20, Cary Nelson and Kenneth Stern issued a widely discussed but troubling statement in response to recent allegations that anti-Semitism has gotten out of hand at three universities: the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa…
read moreWith regularity, campuses in the United States debate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and with regularity, many of those debates degenerate. Students on all sides accuse opponents of creating one-sided programs, of engaging in inflammatory or bigoted rhetoric, of protesting in…
read moreSome recent complaints of anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses do not involve actual discrimination but instead represent attempts “to silence anti-Israel discourse and speakers,” argues a statement issued today by Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University…
read moreIn a letter[1] delivered yesterday to Dr. Richard L. McCormick, President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) described in substantial detail reports from Jewish students that the campus environment is increasingly hostile,…
read moreExclusive: NGO Monitor announces efforts to combat Apartheid Week with “BDS Sewer System” to detail sources of delegitimization campaigns. NEW YORK – Israeli Apartheid Week, an effort by groups and activists supporting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel to discredit…
read moreThe headline on the conservative news website WorldNetDaily was as compelling as they come: “Rutgers bars Jews from anti-Zionist gathering.” Days earlier, the conservative blog Atlas Shrugged had exhorted readers to protest the pro-Palestinian presentation at Rutgers University, whose organizers…
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 moreTo go or not to go In 2008, I was invited to spend a summer conducting neuroscience research at both the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and Al Quds Palestinian University (East Jerusalem /West Bank). As an Egyptian, I had grown up…
read morehttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/columbia_rutgers_on_spy_group_gift_JOTKcEIJ5qgzRWPVeBxxNN Anti-Israel, pro-Iran university professors are being funded by a shadowy multimillion-dollar Islamic charity based in Manhattan that the feds charge is an illegal front for the repressive Iranian regime. The deep-pocketed Alavi Foundation has aggressively given away hundreds of…
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