As The College Fix reported, Jewish groups on UC-Davis’s campus are asking for an investigation into a leading divestment-from-Israel student for her possible role in vandalizing a Jewish fraternity house.
Topic: Israel
California College Students call for Divestment from Israel
Yet another vote of University of California students for the boycotting of Israel and for divestment from Israel. No surprise here.
DePaul Students Fundraise for Convicted Palestinian Terrorist
Rasmea Odeh was convicted in Israel for her participation in bombings in 1970: one killed two students in a marketplace and an attempt to bomb the British consulate. She lied on her immigration papers saying…
Hamas on Campus at UC-Davis
Chants of “Allahu Akbar” broke out while Jewish students were protesting the divestment-from-Israel vote among students. Real classy, no, not at all.
Salaita goes after Illinois Donors in post-firing controversy
Steven Salaita, who did not get tenure at the University of Illinois for anti-Semitic remarks, is now suing the university’s donors for encouraging the university not to hire him.
Al Jazeera Makes an Appearance at the MLA
Haidar Eid, an associate professor at al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip, who also has a blog with Al Jazeera, pre-recorded his remarks to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada. Eid apologized…
MLA Out of Touch with Reality
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality was brought into sharp focus. Few panels at the conference that draws thousands of English…
Programmers at CNES saw no reason to counter Israel criticism
After the holidays, when Congress prepares to reauthorize Title VI of the Higher Education Act, legislators should take a cold, hard look at the case of UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies (CNES), a recipient…
Teachable Moment on Israel
A pair of activists in the state of Washington are promoting an anti-Israel curriculum that high school social studies teachers are considering adopting. Ed Mast and Linda Bevis, of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, have developed…
Anti-Semitism in Action
When faced with a choice between confronting two evils, elites—particularly academic ones—usually focus on the less prevalent one. “In April, the Fifth Annual Conference on Islamophobia was held at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School, organized…