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…
Topic: Israel
Columbia Students Shouted Down Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations
From The College Fix: Protesters “shouted down” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations seven times when he spoke at Columbia University last week, according to the Maccabee Task Force, which fights campus anti-Semitism. Several left-wing…
British Christian “Imperialism” led to Zionism and Israel’s Creation, Professors Claim
The Modern Language Association held a panel discussion of professors who were critical of Zionism and Israel and sympathetic of the Palestinian effort to create a Palestinian state. The four professors focused on the origins…
Professor Warned against Influx of Pro-Israel People in the Trump White House
Pro-Israel people will be a big part of the incoming Trump administration, warned one Columbia University professor: A Columbia University professor notorious for promoting anti-Israel boycotts was forced to walk back comments warning that Israel…
MLA-BDS Aftermath: A Star Is Born
Just as political careers are often launched from electoral defeats, so too do academic careers blossom when Left wing movements fail. Examples of the former abound, from Ronald Reagan’s rise in the wake of the…
‘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…
BDS Boycotts Geography
It really is a shame that geography is no longer taught in schools: It might make life easier for left-wing campus activists. Cary Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois, remembers that in…
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…
Academic Freedom during Times of Political Correctness
Read Jay Schalin’s latest piece at the Pope Center on Zionists vs. ‘post-Zionists’: In 2010, a seemingly insignificant event in a far-off land caught my eye. The Israeli academic world was having a fracas over…