From The College Fix: Jewish students spoke out against anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last week, calling the activists “bigoted” and ignorant of “facts” regarding the history of Israel and Palestine. Flyers for Columbia’s version…
Topic: Palestinians
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…
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…
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…
CUNY Declines to Disband Pro-Palestinian Group Despite Anti-Semitic Acts
The student group ‘Students for Justice for Palestine’ has been exposed as anti-Semitic, but are not going to be banned from City University of New York campuses due to free speech protections: “Death to Jews,”…
Cal-Berkeley Forced to Cancel ‘Decolonizing Palestine’ Course
It does sound like a political indoctrination course, so it’s a good call by Berkeley: The University of California, Berkeley was forced to cancel a course on decolonizing Palestine after conceding that it violated policies…
BDS Threatens Palestinians
Way back in the Big Band Era, even before my time, the Mills Brothers did a song called “You always hurt the one you love.” The political Left in America should resurrect it and make…
The ‘Altruistic Evil’ of Social Justice for the Palestinians
Editor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group,…
San Diego State Faculty Upset at President Who Won’t Condemn anti-BDS Movement Poster
It’s all because some faculty members don’t like a poster that says the BDS movement is linked to Palestinian terrorism.