While the pandemic greatly disrupted campus activities in 2020, the student governments of at least three universities managed to focus their efforts to pass BDS resolutions, bills that asked their respective universities to divest from…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Cancel Culture’s Next Target: Homer and The Odyssey
One of the Left’s anti-free speech tactics is the use of “cancel culture” to publicly shame, ridicule, or isolate people for various actions or words. In addition to going after people these days , the…
University of Michigan task force offended by words ‘picnic’ and ‘brown bag’
To the Left and academics, commonplace words can be deemed offensive. The University of Michigan’s “Words Matter Task Force” mentioned that there are at least two dozen words and phrases that could offend people in…
A Racism Reign of Terror Begins at URI for an Insufficiently Woke Faculty
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. Seeming to give…
2020’s 10 Worst Pandemic Academics
As 2020 comes to a close, there is a stark divide between the dogmatic liberal fanatics and common- sense conservatives regarding the global coronavirus pandemic. This year was a trying year, full of social media-fueled…
Suppressing Free Speech in the Name of Inclusion and Racial Equity at Princeton
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. The ubiquity of…
Exporting Racism: The Latest Slander Against Israel
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In April, leadership…
Professor blasts employer for namesake’s slavery ties
A Johns Hopkins University professor criticized her employer for its founder’s ties to slavery in the 19th century. The Baltimore, Md.-based university recently discovered that— contrary to previous claims that its namesake was a Union,…
Suppressing Academic Freedom in the Name of Inclusion at McGill
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In what has…
Zionism Equating White Supremacy in the Age of Trump
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. Nazifying ideological opponents…