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Countless words have been written in recent months on Israel’s rapid devolvement into an anti-liberal state. And this week, the country took a big step toward full-fledged fascism.
The principle of academic freedom at our universities is under attack by those seeking to shield Israel from criticism by silencing dissent, shutting down discussion and imposing a stifling ...
Re “Political Dissent Is Under Attack on Campus,” by Paula Chakravartty and Vasuki Nesiah (Opinion guest essay, April 8): As an N.Y.U. alumnus and an academic, I am disturbed by the authors ...
A “woke” university has been accused of no-platforming an academic over his pro-Israel views. Prof Eric Kaufmann was invited ...
Within this climate, dissent from government policy, ... In both the US and Israel, loud voices are treating academic disagreement as an existential threat, rather than a democratic strength.
But the professors under fire at Columbia have criticized Israel, echoing the dominant view on campus. It’s a lot harder to defend the faculty members who dissent from the received wisdom.
Edward Said's The Question of Palestine in 1979 and Noam Chomsky's The Fateful Triangle in 1983 were early doses of what the new academic scholarship on Palestine and Israel portended and had ...
The Israel Police and the prosecutor’s office reported to the Knesset that as of Oct. 25, over 126 criminal investigations have been opened and 110 arrests have been made after individual ...
The past several months have seen a series of confused reports by the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Each takes a particular policy and defines it to be consistent with ...
A globally acclaimed academic, Eva Illouz has been a vocal advocate of Israel’s right to defend itself in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that sparked the war in Gaza.. That ...