Since Yale has thus far refused to release the so-called study on which it claims to have based its decision—or even to show it to those most directly affected—it is impossible to know the real reasons behind this controversial action. The two offered by Yale do not satisfy academic criteria. The first, that there was insufficient faculty interest in the initiative, is simply not true. Many faculty members, both inside and outside of Yale, have supported the initiative and have participated in its programs. I myself have delivered a lecture and serve on an advisory board. Several distinguished academics from around the world have also participated. But even if it were true, a lack of interest by the Yale faculty in the growing problem of anti-Semitism would be a symptom of the problem and not an excuse for refusing to study it.
The second claimed reason was a lack of scholarly output from this relatively new institution. This too is doubtful since numerous articles, books, conferences and other scholarly output have been generated over the past several years—with the promise of more to come.
I have been in and around American academic institutions for more than half a century. Never before have I seen such a lack of process and fairness in the termination of a program. Generally, if there is any dissatisfaction with the program, university administrator sit down with those in charge and seek ways of improving it. Rarely if ever is the program simply shut down, as this one has been. Yale has some explaining to do. Even better, it should reconsider its decision, solicit input from outsiders who have participated in the program and figure out a constructive way of keeping the important work of the initiative going.
One of the most important human rights issues of the 21st Century is whether Israel’s actions in defense of its citizens, or indeed its very existence, will provide the newest excuse for the oldest of bigotries. There has rarely been a more important time for the interdisciplinary study of the spreading phenomenon of anti-Semitism in the world today. Yale has a chance to be at the forefront of this study. Instead it has taken a cowardly step away from the controversy. It’s not too late to undo its mistake.
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What is YIISA's funding status? Many western universities, especially in America and England, have made deals with Saudis to set up business and Middle-East studies programs that are worth billions.
yale could be America's first enclave of dhimmitude. It won't be the last. The saudis are buying off the academy with billions of dollars from oil and natural gas revenues. The way to end this is to terminate the saudi regime by recognizing that the royal family is composed of degenerate and loathsome wahabists who insist on practicing slavery, pedophilia, and the serfdom of women. saudi arabia is not a country, but a (dysfunctional) family estate. It supports nothing but terrorism, brutality toward its own citizens, and anti-semitism. The saudis are turning mosques in America into anti-American bases and using our freedoms to destroy us. The United States has the ability to cause the disintegration of saudi arabia and that would be a benefit for all of humanity.
And yet it's the Right that's always been in bed with the Saudis and the oil money. Hence bin Laden, who opposed an American military presence there.
YALE SUCKS
Instead of only bemoaning Yale's action, Prof. Derschowitz should persuade Harvard's administration to pick up the Institute and re-establish it in Cambridge.
Harvard is just as bad.
It is the plan of the left to first destroy Israel, then eliminate the Jewish people.
We Jews are being blamed by the left for every ill, every problem in the world. Eliminate the “Jewish Problem” and everything from Global Warming to Terrorism will immediately end.
This is downright STUPID to cancel this program. I wish it were online or here in NYC. Anti-semitism is a disease that just won't go away. I don't understand why people don't value all the wonderful things that Jews bring to society. New York has so many Jews and they have made it a culturally rich place to live in. Everywhere Jews go, the quality of life improves radically. We should have a JEWISH APPRECIATION program teaching all about the contributions over the centuries that Jews have made in this world.
Dumb, culture is just a substitute for social oppression and the jews are good at distorting reality to the detriment and to the extent where people immerse themselves into passive arts. You just don't know how evil you are. Jews are noxious social parasites intent upon control of money and people. Jews are a virus spreading discord throughout the world. Jews need to commit mass suicide so that the world can be free again.
Hans from the bottom of my shoe you get the nitwit of the month award.
William
Please Hans, if you hate Jews so much, put your money where your mouth is. Please boycott all Jewish produced goods, your cell phone, your computers boards, your medicine… The world will be free once we're rid of people like you.
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This is hardly surprising, such a thing being spawned in one of the erstwhile great Ivy Halls of Academe, having been taken over as it has by mindless (literally) minions of leftist Fascism. These quaint folk fancy themselves as beneficent protectors of openness, tolerance, free speech, dissent, open debate, and all around compassion – especially for the downtrodden. The problem is that how they envision themselves is completely at odds with how they act. When confronted with someone who says something they do not like they quickly respond not with reasoned argumentation, but with vitriolic nastiness, and frequently with downright viciousness.
A significant element of their collective insanity is that in lieu of introspection, self examination, and careful consideration of their beliefs, they resort to a malevolent sort of projection where their own faults and perversions are ascribed to their opponents. Make no mistake, these are the same people – the EXACT same people – as Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, and too many others who piled up the bodies in their respective countries all in the name of the "greater good." When they are out of power they are merely irritating and humorous. When they are in power they are scary and dangerous.
In Canada, you can get kicked out of university for derogatory comments about Muslims, but Muslims are openly preach hate speech against Jews and nothing happens.
INTELLIGENTSIA OF ACADEMIA IN THEIR SECRET ENCLAVE
ON CAPE COD IN COLONIAL WELLFLEET IN THE HOUSE OF
CHOMSKY IN CHOMSKY'S HOUSE GOOSE-STEPPING IN A
VANGUARD OF CHOMSKY JUDEOPHOBIA.
yes. I know exactly how you feel.
I always tell my lefty friends, "and when Tel Aviv is a burning hole in the ground people like you will say "Oh WOW! they were serious. we didn't think they'd really do it. we are SO sorry, guys! turns out–you were right." and then, of course, it'll be too late.
As a half Jew, Catholic Jew; I would like to give my thoughts as a ultra liberal….the fact of the matter…. is that human nature is fragile, and the human mind, is in a constant state of tension, in which the person can either go insane or sane.
As a pacifist, I am familiar with group psychosis; a shrink studies madness on and individual basis.
Most, of the modern day forms of antisemitism is created by official governmental workers; in my gut this is my belief.
The good news…. is even if they do have billions of dollars from oil dictators, man is generally wired to live in peace.
If it was me in charge of the country of Israel, I would triple the budget of the Mossad, to go after the governmental sponsored Palestinian rights terrorists groups.
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