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The University of California’s unanimous and historic condemnation of “anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism” has sparked a fierce national debate. Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitic? There are those who believe anti-Zionism is unquestionably anti-Semitic. In that camp are President Obama, Pope Francis, and the French and British prime ministers. Hillary Clinton, John Kasich, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump […]

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Gatestone Institute website. The California university system seems to have the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel. The situation that has apparently reached such intolerable levels that the Board of Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) was forced to […]

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Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Louis. B Brandeis Center. On January 3, 2016, the newly formed group, “Oberlin Alumni Against Anti-Semitism” denounced a recent trend of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel acts on Oberlin’s campus, in a letter to Oberlin President Marvin Krislov. Oberlin College, a small private school in northern Ohio, has […]

The Modern Language Association (known as MLA) gathers annually in a liberal city of their choice early in the month of January. These professors, graduate students and PhD candidates specialize in language, literature and many obscure academic subjects and are indoctrinating America’s future leaders. What do they discuss? Topics such as: Black Lives Matter and anti-police […]

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 lead of the American Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, the Asian Studies Association, and several others by ignobly voting […]

In one of the better attended panel discussions, the MLA’s panel on academic boycott of Israeli universities was contentious and one-sided.

When you get right down to it, the institutions that cry the loudest for diversity, particularly in academia, aren’t that diverse themselves.

At least one visiting lecturer got to experience this treatment up close and personal.

The campus “divestment against Israel” campaign is known for its grassroots, media-grabbing student demonstrations, but was the entire movement actually orchestrated by Palestinian government operatives?

Reams of data have failed to establish a convincing and consistent relationship between smaller classes and high achievement.

Two events occurred in Washington, DC, in late February that could foreshadow a significant decline in the independence of American colleges and universities.