More than one year ago, the University’s then-Chancellor Wise notified Steven Salaita that his offer of employment was not being forwarded to the Board of Trustees. Debates regarding this matter include the line between free speech and hate speech, the limits of academic freedom, flaws in the university’s hiring process, Salaita’s...
Lessons from Gil Troy: Verticality and Horizontality
Gil Troy began his presentation to the delegates of CAMERA’s Student Leadership Mission to Israel by asking each student to share the name of his or her favorite Israeli. Some of the names required an explanation, while others were known by everyone. Some individuals, like past leaders of the country,...
Imagine There’s No Countries
Recently, it seems that there has been an interesting question reverberating through the walls of the American Jewish Zionist community: Are anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism the same thing? In stereotypical Jewish fashion, in a room of ten people, there are likely to be at least eleven answers to this question. And...