Donor Demands Return of $5-Million Gift and Cancellation of University of Washington Endowed Chair After Professor Protests Gaza Attack Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Seattle Donor Demands Return of $5-Million Gift and Cancellation of University of Washington Endowed Chair After Professor Protests Gaza Attack Richard Silverstein February 27, 2022 UPDATE: Based on reporting in JTA and a statement of support for Prof. Halperin from Jewish Studies... Read More Read more about Donor Demands Return of $5-Million Gift and Cancellation of University of Washington Endowed Chair After Professor Protests Gaza Attack
Trump Executive Order Bars Campus “Anti-Semitism,” Stifles Israel Debate Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society Trump Executive Order Bars Campus “Anti-Semitism,” Stifles Israel Debate Richard Silverstein December 10, 2019 Fresh off his anti-Semitic barnstorming spree in Florida, in which he called his Israeli-American audience “brutal killers,”... Read More Read more about Trump Executive Order Bars Campus “Anti-Semitism,” Stifles Israel Debate
The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State Mideast Peace Military-Tech-Security Politics & Society The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State Richard Silverstein May 26, 2019 I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal... Read More Read more about The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State
Alt-Right Assault on the Academy in Israel, Canada and the U.S. Mideast Peace Alt-Right Assault on the Academy in Israel, Canada and the U.S. Richard Silverstein November 12, 2017 Back in the old days say…during the Bush administration, there were all sorts of attacks on academic... Read More Read more about Alt-Right Assault on the Academy in Israel, Canada and the U.S.
Whoever Said Being a Jew Meant Being “Safe?” Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society Whoever Said Being a Jew Meant Being “Safe?” Richard Silverstein September 26, 2017 The Jewish press has been full of lurid tales of ‘faculty anti-Semitism‘ at the University of Maryland,... Read More Read more about Whoever Said Being a Jew Meant Being “Safe?”
Seattle Protest Against Breitbart Leads to Shooting, Victim Critically Wounded Mideast Peace Seattle Protest Against Breitbart Leads to Shooting, Victim Critically Wounded Richard Silverstein January 23, 2017 Last Friday, just after Donald Trump was sworn in as America’s first alt-right president, Milo Yiannopolous addressed... Read More Read more about Seattle Protest Against Breitbart Leads to Shooting, Victim Critically Wounded
Seeking the Meaning of Life? Hebrew University Recommends Shabak Career Mideast Peace Military-Tech-Security Seeking the Meaning of Life? Hebrew University Recommends Shabak Career Richard Silverstein January 12, 2017 In reading this post, please recall all the hot air huffed and puffed by academic hasbarists like... Read More Read more about Seeking the Meaning of Life? Hebrew University Recommends Shabak Career
Israel and a Tale of Two Campuses Mideast Peace Israel and a Tale of Two Campuses Richard Silverstein November 15, 2014 Tonight, I want to present a portrait of two Israel studies programs on two different campuses to... Read More Read more about Israel and a Tale of Two Campuses
Technion Professor Supports Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing Mideast Peace Technion Professor Supports Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing Richard Silverstein November 3, 2014 UPDATE: Prof. Merhav, thinking better of the worst of his racist Facebook screeds, has scrubbed his page... Read More Read more about Technion Professor Supports Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing
A Modest Proposal to Zionize American Academia Humor Mideast Peace Politics & Society A Modest Proposal to Zionize American Academia Richard Silverstein September 13, 2014 In the true spirit of capitalism, I’ve identified a niche in the academic market and plan to... Read More Read more about A Modest Proposal to Zionize American Academia
Brandeis Rescinds Hirsi Ali Honorary Degree Mideast Peace Brandeis Rescinds Hirsi Ali Honorary Degree Richard Silverstein April 9, 2014 Brandeis’ president announced today that he’d rescinded the University’s offer of an honorary degree to Ayan Hirsi... Read More Read more about Brandeis Rescinds Hirsi Ali Honorary Degree
Al Quds University: Anatomy of a Smear Mideast Peace Al Quds University: Anatomy of a Smear Richard Silverstein December 25, 2013 I wrote several posts a few weeks ago about Brandeis University’s abrupt severing of all ties with... Read More Read more about Al Quds University: Anatomy of a Smear