Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted at their recent annual meeting to advance a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of…
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Anti-Semites Should Not Define Anti-Semitism
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As the 2016…
Terror U: Who is Suppressing Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities?
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In January of…
2020’s 10 Worst Pandemic Academics
As 2020 comes to a close, there is a stark divide between the dogmatic liberal fanatics and common- sense conservatives regarding the global coronavirus pandemic. This year was a trying year, full of social media-fueled…
The Selective Economizing Of University Administrators
Martin Kich of Wight State University helps give us an inside view on why college gets more expensive even as their presidents make belt-tightening noises.
Academia Still Reeling From Hoax
Interestingly, when you read the academic reactions they reveal more of what got past reviews by peers and, if you spend any time actually reading real academic articles, what is startling is the uncanny degree to which they do look like the real thing.
Academia Tries To Spin Out of Hoax
A trio of writers with credentials who managed to place dubious articles in academic journals are already being dismissed by academics attempting to downplay the prank.
Color-Blind Racism Explained
For those of us who never thought that this adjective went together with this noun, particularly as the former was derived from a very famous speech by Martin Luther King.
Academics In Hole Keep Digging
Every time veteran college administrators and professors get together to show that they know how to save higher education, they show that they don’t. “Another solution is to sponsor new academic programs,” Brian C. Mitchell…
Groups Demand Title VI Reform
Fourteen groups sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to bring more diversity to Middle East Studies grants.