Protests Straddle the Gates September 25, 2007 Published in the Columbia Spectator (http://www.columbiaspectator.com) By Maria Insalaco, Tom Faure Despite initial complaints from student leaders that they were not given enough time to plan a response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia, the campus quickly mobilized, and many students have united for a large […]

Chemerinsky and Irvine: What Happened? September 25, 2007 InsideHigherEd.comBy Jon Wiener The biggest academic freedom fight of the year was also the shortest — and the hardest to understand. Duke Law School professor Erwin Chemerinsky accepted an offer on Sept. 4 to serve as founding dean of the new law school at UC Irvine; UCI […]

Hitler’s Muslim Nephew Comes to New York September 25, 2007 FrontPageMagazine.comBy Kenneth R. Timmerman What was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinking? Apparently the former Democrat believed that escorting Iran’s Hitler-wannabe president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the site of the September 11 memorial at Ground Zero would generate a terrific photo op. “Here I am with […]

About 3,000 Students Shirk Duties To Watch Lightning Exchange on Screens September 25, 2007 by Anastasia Gornick, Jacob Schneider, and Laura SchreiberColumbia Daily Spectator As a war of words carried on in Roone Arledge Auditorium on Monday, factions of pro-Israel and anti-war activists shouted across barricades on a block-long stretch of Broadway. On campus, the […]

Columbia University protesters prepare for Iran’s president September 22, 2007 BY MATT SOLARS, KATHLEEN LUCADAMO and NICOLE BODENY DAILY NEWS WRITERS Columbia University students plan mass protests to greet Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he arrives on campus Monday to give a lecture. Students planning the demonstration on the steps of Low Memorial Library […]

Chemerinsky affair reflects UCI-Jewish conflicts JewishJournal.comBy Tom Tugend, Contributing Editor The on-off-on-again saga of Erwin Chemerinsky’s path to become dean of the UC Irvine law school has held a special resonance for the Southern California Jewish community, where he has been active for more than two decades. Also affected are the already strained relations between […]

Q&A with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt JewishJournal.com Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Washington bureau chief, recently sat down with scholars Stephen Walt, international affairs professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, to discuss their controversial new book, “The […]

ZOA, OU concerned at Ramon offer Jewish Telegraphic Agency “Mr. Prime Minister, we cannot state strongly enough our belief that the Government and people of the State of Israel hold Yerushalayim in trust for the Jewish people no matter where they may live, for we all have a share in the holy city,” leaders of […]

Court throws out Jerusalem case Jewish Telegraphic Agency A court said it had no jurisdiction over whether a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem may have “Israel” listed in his passport as his country of birth. In throwing out a lawsuit brought by Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, on behalf of their son, Menachem, federal judge Gladys […]

Iran’s Behind All the Hostilities in Iraq The Jewish ExponentBy Rachel Silverman Many have argued that dividing the conflict-ridden Iraqi state into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi’ite zones — something akin to a partition plan — could quell the ongoing violence there. But according to Iranian dissident Alireza Jafarzadeh, such a strategy is doomed because […]