Friday, April 14, 2023

This column in Fathom is one of the best columns I've seen on how the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is affecting American students and higher education. Please read: Lara Sheehi’s Joyous Rage: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism, Advocacy Academia and Jewish Students’ Nightmares at GWU (Fathom Journal) The American Association of University Professors in 2015 adopted a policy declaring that all faculty member postings on social media should be protected from any professional evaluation or consequences, even if said tweets directly reflect on that faculty's profession. After reading this article, I agree that a professor's and/or administrator's social media accounts and public comments should be considered annotations to his/her syllabus or at the very least reflections on the institution. 









You wouldn't know this from the NYT lead: More Columbia faculty reportedly have signed the letter supporting the Tel Aviv center than have signed the letter opposing it! New York Times Cheerleads for Columbia University Faculty’s Boycott of Israel (Algemeiner)

FYI April 16 is Mimouna: Mimouna: In My Mind I’ve Gone to Marrakech (Jewish Journal)