Uh, free speech, anyone? No?
Topic: Palestinians
Jewish Student at Michigan Cleared by Ethics Probe after Criticizing Pro-Palestinian Display on Campus
A win for free speech: A student government ethics committee has ruled that student Jesse Arm was within his First Amendment rights when he called the display offensive and told his peers to take it…
Women’s Studies and the Moral Vacuity of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the…
Jewish Student Criticizes Pro-Palestinian Display and is Facing an Ethics Probe
As the College Fix noted: Student Jesse Arm, a Central Student Government representative, confronted student peers who set up the pro-Palestinian display on Nov. 19 after his friend, an American Jewish student studying in Israel,…
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…
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…
Who Should Define Anti-Semitism?
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin’s latest column on facing anti-Semitism and its rise on college campuses in America.
Censure Issued to University of Illinois after Salaita Controversy
As the College Fix noted: “…The American Association of University Professors voted to censure the University of Illinois for rescinding its job offer to Steven Salaita.” “Having already released a report in April that said…
Brazilian University Agreed with Palestinians to Spy on Israelis
This is ridiculous. This is opposition research and spying on Israelis for being… Israelis! “An administrator at a Brazilian university agreed to fulfill a public-records requests by those groups to identify “Israeli students and lecturers…
Professor, who helped create Common Core Curriculum, has Lesson that Supports Hamas
Not encouraging and another reason to not trust Common Core: “A “Whose Jerusalem?” workshop created by a Boston University professor that’s been taught in many high schools in recent years and was added to the Common Core-approved national…