Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in The Observer and appears courtesy of the author and the Louis D. Brandeis Center. When New Jersey lawyer Stephen Flatow sent an email to some history professors earlier…
Topic: anti-Israeli
Illinois Settles with Salaita for the Sum of $600,000
The University of Illinois withdrew a job offer to Steven Salaita over anti-Israeli comments on his Twitter account, after which he sued and the university settled.
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…
Israeli War Academic Front
A professor actually lost out on an academic job due to his anti-Israeli musings. Beware, the following tweet is NSFW (or “not safe for work”) due to profanity. “This month, my campus, the University of…