What Kind of Academic Signs These Anti-Israel Petitions? By Fred Gottheil A year and a half ago, January 2009, David C. Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, wrote a three-page petition concerning U.S. relations with Israel, which he addressed to incoming President Barack Obama. His petition was endorsed by nine hundred [...]

Wilders, who spoke for the Freedom Center at Temple and Columbia Universities, has received a new death threat from a well-known Australian Muslim cleric.

Brooklyn College Assigns a Book by KC Johnson My home institution, Brooklyn College, has been receiving some bad press as of late, after the dean and the English Department required that all incoming and transfer students read Moustafa Bayoumi’s How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America. Jewish Week [...]

The following is a debate between David Horowitz and Daniel Luban reprinted from Tabletmag.com. When Daniel Luban published an essay in Tablet Magazine last week finding resonances between what he called Islamophobic opposition to the Park51 Islamic center and past anti-Semitism, one comment on the piece jumped out at us. “This article is in serious [...]

Shariah On The Move Malcolm A. Kline The Constitution might be sliding down a memory hold in most classrooms, even as it makes a comeback outside of them, but from coast to coast, Shariah law is on the rise, at least in public schools. The system of law that pervades the Middle East is treated [...]

The Terror Imams and Their Mosques & Schools August 26, 2010 – by Michael Ledeen Whatever we may think about Imam Rauf and his Manhattan project, sooner or later we are going to have to face a serious problem: what to do about the hundreds of radical mosques in this country. It’s a serious problem [...]

ORANGE – Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel, who evoked the horrors of the death camps with a single word, “Night,” will join Chapman University as a distinguished presidential fellow, the school’s president announced Wednesday. Wiesel, 81, will begin his fellowship in spring 2011, University President Jim Doti told freshmen during a convocation [...]

More Groupthink Perils by KC Johnson In his seminal article analyzing the “groupthink” that pervades the modern academy, my colleague Mark Bauerlein described the effects of the Common Assumption “that all the strangers in the room at professional gatherings are liberals”, creating an academy in which “members may speak their minds without worrying about justifying [...]

[Campus Director's Note - this is a letter to the editor published in the Penn State University's "Daily Collegian" written by Samuel Settle, an activist student on campus.] I was surprised when reading Monday’s column, “Mosque opponents are misguided,” to discover that the columnist is such a strong supporter of George W. Bush. The columnist [...]

by Gil Ronen // Edit “); // ]]>About thirty Arab school principals walked out on a high-profile official event last week when the national anthem, HaTikvah, was sung. The walkout occurred Wednesday at a convention of all the school principals and supervisors in the Jerusalem district, in the presence of Minister of Education Gideon Sa’ar. [...]