Wow:
Topic: anti-Semitism
Report: Rising Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
There were 516 reported incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses in America. Photo by Templar1307 | Galerie des Bois Photo by Templar1307 | Galerie des Bois
Oberlin Leaders Condemn Professor’s Anti-Semitic Social Media Post
Oberlin’s chairman of the board of trustees issued a statement to condemn Oberlin professor Joy Karega’s anti-Israel/anti-Semitic social media post on Facebook: Joy Karega, the professor at Oberlin College who wrote a series of anti-Semitic…
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…
New Oberlin Alumni Group Condemns Anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Louis. B Brandeis Center. On January 3, 2016, the newly formed group, “Oberlin Alumni Against Anti-Semitism” denounced a recent trend of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel acts on…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Numbers Behind Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
Often, the narrative is that Muslims are more persecuted than other religious groups. However, the statistics tell a different story:
Rehashing Salaita’s Firing, Again
The Modern Language Association (MLA) is obsessive over Steven Salaita’s firing at the University of Illinois, demonstrated by a panel session entitled, “Salaita, Academic Freedom, and the Question of Palestine: Where Do We Go from…
Anti-Semitic Resolutions Visible in University of California System
From Campus Reform: A controversial resolution was passed at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) in November urging administration to divest from Israel, but reports show an initial 2014 vote passed with an illegal…
UCLA Won’t Suspend Student for Anti-Semitic Social Media Comment
It is protected under the First Amendment, but it doesn’t make it right to make hateful, hurtful comments.
The Wesleyan Controversy and a Double Standard for Campus Free Speech
In what is yet more evidence that universities have become, at least where campus free speech is concerned, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” as Chester E. Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary…