Faculty Lounge Oberlin Leaders Condemn Professor’s Anti-Semitic Social Media Post Spencer Irvine March 10, 2016 Oberlin’s chairman of the board of trustees issued a statement to condemn Oberlin professor Joy Karega’s anti-Israel/anti-Semitic social media post…
Guest Articles The Paranoid View of History Infects Oberlin Richard Cravatts March 3, 2016 This article was originally posted on Times of Israel. “i-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A…
Perspectives New Oberlin Alumni Group Condemns Anti-Semitism Alex Goldberg February 7, 2016 Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Louis. B Brandeis Center. On January 3, 2016, the newly formed…
Perspectives INFOGRAPHIC: The Numbers Behind Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Spencer Irvine January 29, 2016 Often, the narrative is that Muslims are more persecuted than other religious groups. However, the statistics tell a different story:
MLA, Perspectives Rehashing Salaita’s Firing, Again Spencer Irvine January 24, 2016 The Modern Language Association (MLA) is obsessive over Steven Salaita’s firing at the University of Illinois, demonstrated by a panel…
Faculty Lounge Anti-Semitic Resolutions Visible in University of California System Spencer Irvine January 20, 2016 From Campus Reform: A controversial resolution was passed at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) in November urging administration…
Faculty Lounge UCLA Won’t Suspend Student for Anti-Semitic Social Media Comment Spencer Irvine December 25, 2015 It is protected under the First Amendment, but it doesn’t make it right to make hateful, hurtful comments.
Guest Articles The Wesleyan Controversy and a Double Standard for Campus Free Speech Richard Cravatts October 31, 2015 In what is yet more evidence that universities have become, at least where campus free speech is concerned, “islands of…
Guest Articles UC Regents Listen to Jewish Community, Publicly Acknowledge Necessity of Addressing Antisemitism! Tammi Rossman-Benjamin September 27, 2015 Regents scrap meaningless Principles Against Intolerance and form a committee to rework the language. Shana Tova! Great start to the…
Faculty Lounge University of California Regents Criticize Proposal for Ignoring Anti-Semitism Spencer Irvine September 21, 2015 As the College Fix reported: The regents of the University of California system on Thursday roundly criticized a proposed “Statement…
Faculty Lounge Anti-Semitism Condemned by California Resolution, but is it Strong Enough? Spencer Irvine July 22, 2015 As the College Fix reported: “The California Assembly and Senate approved a resolution this week that “condemns anti-Semitic activity on…
Faculty Lounge Who Should Define Anti-Semitism? Spencer Irvine July 15, 2015 Tammi Rossman-Benjamin’s latest column on facing anti-Semitism and its rise on college campuses in America.
