Richard Cravatts
ARTICLES BY: Richard Cravatts
Suppressing Pro-Israel Views at the University of Chicago
The suppression of pro-Israel views on campus has been a troubling development in the ongoing cognitive war against Israel. Now, the silencing of pro-Israel voices...
The University of Toronto’s Jewish Problem
As if to confirm the depth of its anti-Israel animus, the Student Union of the University of Toronto at Scarborough (SCSU) passed a poisonous motion...
The Moral Incoherence of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
JNS.org - Seeming to give credence to George Orwell’s wry observation that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,”...
Pseudo-Scholarship and the Resurrection of the Blood Libel Against Israel and Jews
Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews for hundreds of years. In 12th-century England, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously...
Normalizing Antisemitism on Campus
At McGill University recently, three board members of the University’s Students’ Society were removed from their appointments after a vote at the Fall General Assembly...
The Intellectual Hypocrisy of Anti-Israel Academic Boycotts
Among the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts. And these boycotts, in their present form,...
Moral Dementia at Stanford and Berkeley
In a display of moral narcissism that British columnist Melanie Phillips has characterized as a “dialogue of the demented,” Stanford students staged a public protest...
Answering the Academic Boycotters of Israel
Six days after its membership voted to implement an academic boycott against Israeli universities, the American Studies Association's Caucus on Academic and Community Activism hurriedly...
