Purging Jewish Students From the Israeli/Palestinian Debate by Richard L. Cravatts, PhD In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from student anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and ...Read More...

The Intellectual Arrogance of Suppressing Campus Speech  by Richard L. Cravatts, PhD Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts,” a student-written ...Read More...

The campus fascists who are now suppressing conservative views have been using those tactics against pro-Israel speakers for years by Richard L. Cravatts, PhD When Chester Evans Finn, Jr., a former United States Assistant Secretary of Education, observed in 1989 that university campuses had ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Liberal MP Iqra Khalid is congratulated by colleagues as she speaks about her anti-Islamophobia motion on Feb. 15, 2017. There are several problems with the House of Commons private members’ motion 103 on “systemic racism and religious discrimination.” It is based on the assertion ...Read More...

Boycotting Historians Denounce Blacklists Just as They Call for Blacklisting Israeli Academics By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD American Historical Association founders Of the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts, ...Read More...

Progressive Activists Try to Deflect Blame for Their Own Campus Anti-Semitism by Richard L. Cravatts In early December, a bipartisan Congressional bill, H.R. 6421/S. 10, the “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” took on a long-overdue task, namely, increasing “understanding of the parameters of contemporary ...Read More...

The latest betrayal of Israel is potentially lethal in making Jews trespassers and criminals on their own land by Richard L. Cravatts The shameful and morally-incoherent December 23rd Resolution 2334 by the UN Security Council demanding that “Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement ...Read More...