All Entries Tagged With: "Academics and Universities"

Boo Hoo Blackwell

Britains’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) is set to revote on their disgraceful decision to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. And someone is not happy about it.

Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) is to hold a special session Thursday for a revote on the decision to boycott two Israeli universities.
 
Jewish organizations and opponents of the [...]

The Hypocrisy is Torture

A university academic in Australia has caused a furore, by expressing his view that extreme violence against a person may be justifiable in some circumstances.

The head of Deakin University’s law school is at the centre of a national furore after publishing an article advocating the use of torture in some circumstances.
 
Academics, politicians and refugee [...]

Duke University Editorial: The Aftermath

I just sent this response to Philip Kurian.

Mr Kurian,
 
Please do not mistake my candor and civility with a lack of underlying intense emotion regarding your editorial. As I have already mentioned, it is one of the most anti-Semitic things I have ever read. Or, more specifically, it reads as a compilation of practically every anti-Semitic [...]

Kurian Responds

Philip Kurian responds to my email regarding his anti-Semitic editorial:

Dear David, I appreciate your candor and willingness to consider my perspective, however naive and uninformed. I want to assure you that I harbor no hatred towards the Jewish people, and the intentions in my writing were not insidious. My main contention is that SOME Jews worked very [...]

Hat Tip: Hitler

In the wake of last week’s PSM anti-Israel conference hatefest at Duke University, and Jewish opposition to it, Duke University senior Phillip Kurian has decided to let his feelings out (hat tip: LGF)

You are not required to complete the work, yet you are not allowed to desist from it.
 
—Pirkei Avot (The Book of Principles), 2:21
 
Such describes [...]

Terror Conference at Duke University

The decision by Duke University to host the 2004 conference of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), has sparked extensive discussion on the issue of free speech. ”You should not think the truth is so weak that it needs the power of suppression,” said Duke President Richard H. Brodhead, explaining the decision to host the PSM conference because of the [...]