On a university campus, a student group invites a speaker. Several other groups oppose that speaker’s views. During the first minutes of his speech, they pull out megaphones, repeatedly yell profanities at him and cause...
Wrong-headed Responses in the US to the Idea of a University as a Place of Free Speech
Jay Michaelson, writing in the Daily Beast [August 26, 2016], remarks that the University of Chicago’s recent “P.C. crackdown” is about “keeping right-wing donors happy,” although he produces no evidence whatsoever to back up his...
Opposing BDS at CUNY
During October, 2014, a resolution endorsing the academic boycott of Israel failed to attract majority support in the Doctoral Students Council (DSC) at the City University of New York. This week, April 15, 2016, BDS...
BDS scholars defend the indefensible
Most of the usual suspects linked with the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) have come swiftly to the aid of Dr. Jasbir Puar, a Rutgers faculty member and participant...
Essay Critical of Vassar Never Took Stand Against Free Expression
To the Editor: In response to Lawrence Biemiller’s recent news roundup mentioning the Academic Engagement Network (“The Week: What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days,” The Chronicle, February 28), I write to...
Contra Divestment at Columbia: Invest, Don’t Divest
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), two student organizations active at Columbia University, announced in late January they are joining together to mount a divestment campaign on the campus....
A New Awareness and Warning
Pro-Palestinian protesters this past Friday, January 22, 2016, forced the cancellation of a reception and in Chicago at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s annual conference. The gathering was to have featured two LGBT rights advocates...
A New Awareness and Warning
Pro-Palestinian protesters this past Friday, January 22, 2016, forced the cancellation of a reception and in Chicago at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s annual conference. The gathering was to have featured two LGBT rights advocates...
Faculty Opposing BDS on U.S. Campuses
In an October 2015 essay on BDS in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, distinguished historian and UCLA chair of Jewish Studies David N. Myers offered that not all Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...
Disrupting the study of Israel on campus
There is a clear line between non-violent protest and planned disruption of university academic events. At a recent Israel Institute seminar at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Palestinian...
