America’s Behind-the-Scenes Efforts to Prop Up Bashar al-Assad
The Teflon dictator.
May 2, 2016
Is Professorial Anti-Semitism Finally Meeting Resistance?
Steven Salaita, the American University of Beirut, and the American Studies Association.
After being denied tenure at the University of Illinois for his vitriolic expressions of hatred for Israel, Steven Salaita found himself a position at the American University of Beirut (AUB), which recently announced that it, too, is terminating his employment. Meanwhile, a group of eminent professors is suing the American Studies Association (ASA)—the first U.S. academic organization to endorse a boycott of Israeli scholars and institutions—for violating the terms of its charter. Ben Cohen takes stock of these developments:
May 2, 2016
Is Professorial Anti-Semitism Finally Meeting Resistance?
Steven Salaita, the American University of Beirut, and the American Studies Association.
The British Labor Party Doesn’t Have an Anti-Semitism Problem—It Has a Chronic Condition
The contaminated soil of Marxist totalitarianism.
What Kind of Honey Did the Land of Israel Flow With?
New evidence of ancient bees.
Did William the Conqueror Have a Jewish Mother?
William the Mamzer.