Some faculty members have themselves been the victims of antisemitism and discrimination while others have supported anti-Jewish bias. The responses by university administrators have also varied considerably. CAMERA monitors instances of antisemitism and anti-Zionist attacks on campus and provides informational and strategic support to students, faculty members and administrators.

News and Commentary

  • GOP Probes Academic Group After It Defends Professor Who Blamed Rushdie Attack on Israel

    Washington Free Beacon – Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress are accusing one of the country’s most prominent Middle Eastern academic groups of promoting anti-Semitism after the organization defended a college professor who accused Israel’s Mossad of organizing the recent attack on author Salman Rushdie.

  • Largest Organization of University Professors Attacks IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism

    JNS – A recent policy document published by the largest organization of university professors in the United States has come under fire for demonizing the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of anti-Semitism by Florida’s state legislature.

  • Israel Studies has an Israel Problem

    It’s hardly news that Middle Eastern departments on college and university campuses have long been vehemently hostile to the Jewish state. But what about Israel Studies? The height of the latest round of conflict between Israel and Gaza last year, some 200 Israel and Jewish Studies scholars signed an open letter condemning Israel’s conduct.

  • The Modern Language Association, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

    Fathom Journal – Now the MLA’s main governing body, the Executive Council, has joined with its Committee on Academic Freedom to endorse anti-Zionist complaints about the most widely adopted definition of contemporary antisemitism.

  • Middle East Professors Boycott Israel — Where’s the Moral Outrage?

    Algemeiner – In March 2022, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted to endorse an academic boycott of Israel. Unlike the ASA’s symbolic boycott, MESA’s embrace of academic BDS couldn’t be more consequential.

     

  • White Supremacy And The Jews: The Dispute Over A Music Theorist

    CAMERA – Given the anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories that have been used against Jews for centuries, it’s unsurprising that critical race theory (CRT) provides a convenient guise to attack Jews today. A case in point is the dispute over the legacy of Heinrich Schenker, a Jewish music theorist from Galicia who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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