Posts Tagged: Omar Barghouti
How Brooklyn College Legitimized BDS
The controversy over a "panel discussion" at Brooklyn College has little to do with free speech, and everything to do with politicization of...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
Free Speech a Principle, Not an Instrument
One of the biggest challenges facing modern democracies is how to deal with anti-democratic movements that use the institutions of civil society to advance their...
Mayor Bloomberg Says BDS Apostles Should Speak at Brooklyn College
Times of Israel - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday spoke up for academic freedom amid controversy over an event at a public college,...
Antisemitism With a Literary Glow: Alice Walker’s Ugly Caricature of Israeli Jews
"Jesus, a Palestinian - is still being crucified." (Alice Walker's blog, per CAMERA.) "[Israeli] settlers are the [Ku Klux] Klan" (Alice Walker, during interview with Jesse Rosenfeld.) "I...
Planting Trees is Racist?!
An international campaign wants to stop a non-profit environmental organization that has been functioning for more than 100 years by purporting fallacies and anti-Israel propaganda. The...
Understanding the BDS Movement
Next weekend, the University of Pennsylvania will host the second national BDS conference, an event that will advocate for the "growing global campaign to boycott,...
