Campus Watch

David Newman is concerned. He is concerned about the lack of debate inIsraeli society and the borders we have put up between ourselves aswell as the…

This article was published in The Jerusalem Report on March 1, 2010. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report, click here. In the first two weeks of…

Fast and furious was the reaction to the recent accusation by Im Tirtzu, a Zionist student group, that 92 percent of the Goldstone Report’s citations…

When I was growing up in an Orthodox environment in North London, our teachers and rabbis constantly warned against the dangers of those who would…

On August 20, an opinion column published on page A-31 of the Los Angeles Times unleashed a firestorm that continues to blaze in California, and in…

The Swedish government refused to condemn a totally unsupported article in the country's largest-circulation newspaper alleging that Israel routinely…

Democracy... Sir, - Bashing critics of the Left, David Newman purports to defend free speech. But in his April 14 op-ed "Bashing the academic Left,"…

For the past two years I represented Israel's universities in the UK in the debate surrounding the proposed academic boycott. There were many who…

When Dana Barnett decided to "pick up the ball and run with it" four years ago, by establishing Israel Academia Monitor, she "hadn't grasped fully…

What can be done to reverse the failures of Middle East studies in North America? Students today are subjected to radical views of the Middle East by…

What has Campus Watch, a project to critique and improve Middle East studies in the United States and Canada, achieved since it opened its doors this…

Should outsiders try to influence the hiring or tenuring of university faculty? The question arises because, with the radicalization of the American…

In Israel last month to receive the "Guardian of Zion" award from Bar-Ilan University's Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Middle East scholar and…

No fearSir, - IDF officers are worried that today's soldiers are not ready for battle, and will provide them with lectures by psychologists and…

Are we Jews too sensitive to what non-Jews say about us? The Haggada, which we just read on Seder night, hints at the answer. The telling of the…

Our older son recently got married, an occasion that puts me in mind of family matters. Nick's American cousins were all at the wedding but none of…

The problem of scholars injecting politics into their classroom and published works is an old one. But a powerful new article by Ofira Seliktar…