Faculty Lounge Despite BDS movement, No Actual Divestment from Israel Spencer Irvine March 17, 2015 The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses has not led to full divestment from Israel by college…
Faculty Lounge Anti-Israel Activists Botch Election Procedures, but Whine Enough to Get Special Election Spencer Irvine March 15, 2015 Seems that following the rules is not the anti-Israel, pro-divestment activists’ way of doing things. As The College Fix reported:…
Faculty Lounge Tufts University’s Israeli Apartheid Week has Black and Palestinian Queer Workshop Spencer Irvine March 9, 2015 As if Israeli Apartheid Week wasn’t a ridiculous notion, the week featured a workshop on the connection between black and Palestinian…
Faculty Lounge Student Fees paid for a University Event that Shows Support for Convicted Terrorist Spencer Irvine February 28, 2015 Via The College Fix: “A member for the defense team of Rasmea Odeh — a convicted terrorist in Israel who…
Faculty Lounge Jewish Groups ask for UC-Davis to Investigate Vandalism Spencer Irvine February 25, 2015 As The College Fix reported, Jewish groups on UC-Davis’s campus are asking for an investigation into a leading divestment-from-Israel student…
Faculty Lounge California College Students call for Divestment from Israel Spencer Irvine February 11, 2015 Yet another vote of University of California students for the boycotting of Israel and for divestment from Israel. No surprise…
Faculty Lounge DePaul Students Fundraise for Convicted Palestinian Terrorist Spencer Irvine February 5, 2015 Rasmea Odeh was convicted in Israel for her participation in bombings in 1970: one killed two students in a marketplace…
Faculty Lounge Hamas on Campus at UC-Davis Spencer Irvine February 3, 2015 Chants of “Allahu Akbar” broke out while Jewish students were protesting the divestment-from-Israel vote among students. Real classy, no, not…
Faculty Lounge Salaita goes after Illinois Donors in post-firing controversy Spencer Irvine February 1, 2015 Steven Salaita, who did not get tenure at the University of Illinois for anti-Semitic remarks, is now suing the university’s…
Events, News Al Jazeera Makes an Appearance at the MLA Spencer Irvine January 29, 2015 Haidar Eid, an associate professor at al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip, who also has a blog with Al Jazeera,…
Events, News MLA Out of Touch with Reality Spencer Irvine January 28, 2015 At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality…
Perspectives Programmers at CNES saw no reason to counter Israel criticism Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and Leila Beckwith December 31, 2014 After the holidays, when Congress prepares to reauthorize Title VI of the Higher Education Act, legislators should take a cold,…
