Faculty Lounge Lawsuit against American Studies Association Approved over Organization’s Israel Boycott Efforts Spencer Irvine April 14, 2017 The American Studies Association, an academic association, is facing a lawsuit from current and former members on its stance to push the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement on its members.
MLA MLA-BDS Aftermath: A Star Is Born Malcolm A. Kline January 23, 2017 Just as political careers are often launched from electoral defeats, so too do academic careers blossom when Left wing movements…
Guest Articles ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’: Progressive activists try to deflect blame for their own campus anti-Semitism Richard Cravatts January 19, 2017 Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on Times of Israel. In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S.10, the…
Perspectives BDS Boycotts Geography Malcolm A. Kline November 18, 2016 It really is a shame that geography is no longer taught in schools: It might make life easier for left-wing…
Guest Articles Perverting College Coursework to Conform to Ideology Richard Cravatts October 17, 2016 Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars,…
Perspectives Federally Funded Anti-Semitism Malcolm A. Kline September 16, 2016 We’ve reported on the movement on college campuses to apply boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against entities that invest in…
Perspectives BDS Threatens Palestinians Malcolm A. Kline September 15, 2016 Way back in the Big Band Era, even before my time, the Mills Brothers did a song called “You always…
Faculty Lounge Star Parker: The BDS Movement is Very Anti-Israel Spencer Irvine Star Parker wrote a great column on the anti-Israel BDS movement that is making waves on college campuses: According to…
Guest Articles Anti-Israel BDS Movement at UCLA & Berkeley Roger Aronoff September 9, 2016 According to the AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates and reports on anti-Semitism at American universities, there was “an…
Faculty Lounge Syracuse University Cancels Film on Israeli Settlers over Worries of BDS Movement Backlash Spencer Irvine However, there is a controversy whether the cancelling of the film on Israeli settlers was due to the potential backlash…
Guest Articles The ‘Altruistic Evil’ of Social Justice for the Palestinians Richard Cravatts August 18, 2016 Editor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has…
Perspectives Black Lives Matter & BDS: Separated at birth? Alex Nitzberg August 11, 2016 The Movement for Black Lives (a conglomeration comprised of Black Lives Matter and many other groups) recently garnered media attention…
