College Fix reported on the American Anthropological Association (AAA): Choosing from a “menu” of options devised by a task force with scant experience in Palestine, association members chose a compromise option at its annual business meeting…
Topic: Israel
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…
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…
Moral Dementia at Stanford and Berkeley
In a display of moral narcissism that British columnist Melanie Phillips has characterized as a “dialogue of the demented,”Stanford students staged a public protest on October 19th to once again denounce Israel and, presumably, to honor…
UC Regents Listen to Jewish Community, Publicly Acknowledge Necessity of Addressing Antisemitism!
Regents scrap meaningless Principles Against Intolerance and form a committee to rework the language. Shana Tova! Great start to the new year! After hearing from dozens of students, faculty, alumni and Jewish groups yesterday at…
Muslim Student Elected as Student President of Anti-Israel Group J Street
J Street U, the student arm of the J Street organization, elected a female Muslim student as its president. Supporters say J Street is pro-Israel, but other pro-Israel groups disagree with the label.
Sound Familiar? Secret E-mails Released, but from Illinois University over Firing Controversial, anti-Israel Professor
As the College Fix reported: University of Illinois officials conducted official business and discussed controversies on email accounts that they didn’t make available for public records requests, the school admitted Friday. Freedom of Information Act requests…
Survey finds Canadian, Californian Universities Tend to be Hostile Toward Israel Supporters
Wonder if The Left will claim selection bias to discredit the survey: A Brandeis University study released last week found that “one-third [of respondents] said they had been verbally harassed over the past year because…
Holocaust Denier Professor’s Facebook Post on Pamela Geller is Over-the-Top
His Facebook post, which was posted online this past May, said, “Don’t be scared of these dirty Jewish Zionist White Supremacist thugs” in response to Pamela Geller’s satirical cartoon event. Kaukab Siddique is a professor at…
Anti-Semitism Condemned by California Resolution, but is it Strong Enough?
As the College Fix reported: “The California Assembly and Senate approved a resolution this week that “condemns anti-Semitic activity on University of California campuses” and “urges individual campuses to each adopt their own similar resolutions,”…