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Genocide Bad. by Internet activist and aspiring book influencer Sim Kern purports to educate readers in Jewish and Palestinian history. It is part memoir, part issues–driven, and all filtered through the author’s extreme anti-Israel, anti-Western ideology.
This attempt to explain the Middle East conflict to young readers in simple terms omits critical events in the region’s complex history and distorts the past.
Academic freedom is an important value that must be protected. That includes protection against those who would exploit their freedom to undermine academic integrity and the academic freedom of others from within. At Cornell University, that threat is emerging.
A call for book-burning at this year’s National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention has laid bare a growing effort by anti-Zionist activists to control, by whatever means, the narrative on topics they consider contentious.
First, they broke both the law and Brown University policies. Then, as extensively documented here, they lied to the university about nearly every aspect of their cause. Now, the Brown Divestment Coalition (“BDC”) expects the university to harm its own interests and violate its own values in service of the BDC’s bigoted demands.
The University of Minnesota is set to hire, as its new director for the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, an individual who would serve better as a case study on the persistence of genocidal antisemitism than as credible researcher of it.
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