Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published at the Times of Israel. When Chester Evans Finn, Jr., a former United States Assistant Secretary of Education, observed in 1989 that university campuses had become “islands of…
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‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’: Progressive activists try to deflect blame for their own campus anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on Times of Israel. In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S.10, the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” took on a long-overdue task, namely, increasing “understanding of the parameters of…
Not all the news that’s fit to print: College newspapers’ Palestinian bias
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published at the Times of Israel. When Elmer Davis, director of FDR’s Office of War Information, observed that “…you cannot do much with people who are convinced that they are…
Perverting College Coursework to Conform to Ideology
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of…
The ‘Altruistic Evil’ of Social Justice for the Palestinians
Editor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group,…
The Paranoid View Of History Infects Oberlin
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the website of The Jewish Press. “Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How…
Anti-Semitism on California Campuses
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Gatestone Institute website. The California university system seems to have the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel. The situation that has…
The Paranoid View of History Infects Oberlin
This article was originally posted on Times of Israel. “i-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history…
Women’s Studies and the Moral Vacuity of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the…
Students for Justice in Palestine Seeks Social for All—Except Jews, Of Course
Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared on Times of Israel’s website. Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking…
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Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
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Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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