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Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, and the author of “Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews.”
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It wasn’t rich Jewish donors who did him in, but his weaponized activism and mendacious scholarship.
In the fantasy world of toxic anti-Israel activists, they are always the victim.
MESA's obsessive hatred of the Jewish state.
What the supposed quest for Palestinian statehood and social justice is really about.
Academic covert campaigns of hate.
Meet the virtue-signaling progressives who promote lies about the Jewish state.
Progressive students, in their own moral self-righteousness, have decided that the Palestinian statehood is a sacred cause. To even support Israel is to risk being deemed a racist, an imperialist, a tacit supporter of apartheid.
Jewish students are now being indicted on campus not just for supporting Israel but for being Jewish.
The hysteria, and evident delusion, over the perceived sudden resurgence of fascism and the subsequent demonization of anyone who expresses conservative thought, supports Trump, or refuses to cave to the thrall of identity politics and political correctness on campuses, has given campus activists a new and potent tool in their campaign against any ideas they do not like –meaning, of course, any ideas that challenge their preconceived and leftist notions.
More offensive than the notion the Shoah might not have occurred were the instructions for the assignment, “some people claim the Holocaust is not an actual event, but instead is a propaganda tool.”
Free speech does not permit depriving others of their free speech rights – through disruptions, heckling, or other tactics intended to suppress and/or eliminate the speech of those with opposing views
Hypocritically, anti-Israel academics wish to freely pontificate on Israel's many "defects" but don't like to be inconvenienced by being challenged on those biased, and intellectually dishonest, views
The UNESCO vote indicates that in a morally incoherent world, political expediency will trump reason, truth, and fact.
For social justice warriors, to know one victim group is to know any victim group – with Israel being a tempting and habitual target of their condemnation
An unholy alliance formed by "progressive" leftists and "social justice" advocates from Muslim-led pro-Palestinian groups leads a libelous and vituperative campaign to demonize and attack Israel
It has never been the function of academic free speech to protect or promote irresponsible, inaccurate, or deranged speech-yet anti-Semitic speech of this kind apparently is
Professed fairness or neutrality implies the US is willing to abandon its moral compass and Israel
A cabal of 55 morally incoherent anti-Israel US&Canadian profs formed Open Hillel’s Academic Council
Orwell claimed some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals-TRUE!
True intellectual diversity must be dedicated to the protection of unfettered speech
On over 60 college campuses across America students have submitted audacious lists of demands
The primary objective of this conference was to question the fundamental legitimacy of Israel itself
Abbas has been adding new layers of rhetoric to his tactical campaign to de-Judaize Jerusalem
Only in the inverted world of academia would Jewish professors denounce the AMCHA Initiative report.
Rather than serving as a deterrent against terrorist attacks, Israel’s military strength and capabilities are instead looked at as an unfair advantage in the asymmetrical war in which it finds itself.
The multiculturalism that animates the hate-Israel crowd is sprinkled with code words of oppression
Jews do not fare well on campuses these days, particularly in the context of the debate over Israel.
The cynical, and historically and factually inaccurate, view has meant leftists frequently denounce Western democracies as imperialistic, racist, militaristic oppressors.
What was unique about the MLA’s and the ASA’s approach was the breathtakingly Orwellian notion that not only was Israel itself guilty of the many alleged transgressions assigned to it by its libelers, but a boycott against Israeli academics was warranted because the academic establishment itself is complicit in Zionism’s excesses and a core element of the bemoaned occupation, oppression, and denial of Palestinian self-determination.
The ASA has obviously overlooked the pathology of Palestinian society.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), which represents some 14,500 members, voted in early April “to cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, as well as cooperation in research programmes [sic].”
As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book The World Turned Upside Down, Northeastern University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), paralleling the moral incoherence of anti-Israel activists demonstrating elsewhere in American and European cities, sponsored a November 15 Boston rally in support of Gaza and, presumably, its genocidal thugocracy, Hamas.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently continued a long tradition of attempting to question a Jewish link to Jerusalem by expressing his mendacious notion that “Jerusalem’s identity is Arab, and the city’s and Christian holy sites must be protected from Israeli threats.”
On campuses today Israel is regularly, though falsely, condemned for being created “illegally” – through the “theft” of Palestinian lands and property – and thus has no “right to exist.”
August 7, 2026 
