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A. Jay Adler did his graduate studies at Columbia University and is currently Adjunct Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. and Professor of English, Emeritus, Los Angeles Southwest College. He is also contributing poetry editor at West Magazine. Adler writes in all genres, including poetry, drama, screenwriting, fiction, and essay. His journalism has appeared in DoubleTake and Tikkun, his essays on film in Bright Lights Film Journal, Senses of Cinema, and The Fortnightly Review, and his writing on Native America has been anthologized in Global Viewpoints: Indigenous Peoples. Adler is the featured writer in the forthcoming issue of Footnote: a Journal of Literary History. He blogs on politics, ideas, and culture at the sad red earth. His most recent writing on Israel, "Academic Boycotts and Re-Colonization by Theory," appears at Scholars for Peace in The Middle East.

ARTICLES BY: A. Jay Adler


August 19, 2021 12:23 pm
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CUNY and the Warfare of Academic Antisemitism

When the City University of New York (CUNY) faculty union -- the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) -- passed its June 10 resolution, so-called, “in support...

June 24, 2021 11:05 am
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Why I Resigned From the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)-CUNY

I am an ardent, lifelong supporter of organized labor. In the past, I served on the executive board and two contract negotiating teams for the...

April 3, 2014 6:27 am
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The Third Narrative: Not So Third, Not a Narrative, Not New

I regret to say that a fair number of people I respect (and some not so much) have signed on to a statement about the...

February 11, 2014 1:43 am
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A Misguided Argument About Anti-Semitism

In the Wall Street Journal of February 3, Harvard's Ruth R. Wisse published an Op-Ed titled "The Dark Side of the War on 'the One...

December 30, 2013 8:25 am
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Wrong on Both Counts: Academic Boycotts and Israel

Statements rejecting calls for an academic boycott of Israel, such as that recently resolved by the academic American Studies Association, generally resort fully only to...

September 9, 2013 9:45 am
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Forgetfulness is a Chemical Weapon

Something fails to fire. Across the synaptic gap, neurotransmission falls short. For only a moment or forever, we cease to remember - -- "as if," Billy...

July 25, 2013 7:58 am
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Helen Thomas and Oedipus

On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday morning, new host David Folkenflik hosted three female journalists, including Judy Woodruff, Ann Compton, and Candy Crowley in considering the...

July 12, 2013 6:35 am
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‘Blowback’ and the Rhetoric of Revenge

Terror apologia begins by denying the very meaning of the word terrorism, but slyly redirects the charge at the Western nations that use the word....

June 20, 2013 6:30 am
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“It goes without saying”: the Further Rhetoric of Terrorist Apologia

When the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, then with Salon, interviewed Rene Brulin in 2010, the purpose of the conversation was to discuss Brulin's research into the...

June 10, 2013 8:27 am
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The United States of Securitopia

How bad is the administration's defense of its just revealed telephone and internet surveillance programs? Pretty bad. Mind you, that question does not address the programs themselves....

June 3, 2013 1:44 am
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Notes Toward a Terror Apologist’s Rhetoric (Abridged but Unexpurgated)

You have probably noticed that an enormous amount of public debate is repetition. It gets to the point - you hear the same arguments often...

May 17, 2013 8:20 am
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Drones and the Human Agency of War

Joshua Foust has written at Foreign Policy a misleadingly titled essay, "A Liberal Case for Drones." I think there is such a case, but this...

May 3, 2013 9:07 am
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A Campaign of Willful Blindness on Terrorism

On April 15, 2013 at 2:49 p.m. two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Most of us know the details, more...

April 23, 2013 1:52 pm
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The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege

The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long history of...

World

‘Everyone in Danger’: Concordia University Refuses to Investiga...

Jewish students at Concordia University in Montreal must fend for themselves when their anti-Zionist classmates resort to assault and harassment...

Middle East

Hezbollah Tells Iran It Would Fight Alone in War With Israel

With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran's Quds Force visited Beirut in February to discuss the risk posed if Israel next aims at Lebanon's Hezbollah, an...

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