SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Over 50 prominent UK academics have signed an open letter to Baroness Heather Hallett, chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, calling for urgent action to address the shortcomings of the probe so far. The signatories of the letter say the Hallett Inquiry suffers from bias, false assumptions, and a lack […]
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Academics: Allowing Kids to Opt Out of Drag Storytime Is a ‘Dangerous Setback’ for Gay Rights
A pair of academics affiliated with York University believe that allowing parents to opt out their children from drag storytime events is a “dangerous setback for 2SLGBTQ+ human rights education.” Source Views: 0
DC court dismisses lawsuit targeting academics over BDS support
After nine years of legal battles the Superior Court of Washington, DC has dismissed a lawsuit targeting academics over their support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The case was dismissed on the basis of a DC law aimed at discouraging Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), which are often used as a […]
“UK Academics Call For WWII-Style Rationing To Fight Climate Change” – how dumb do they think we are?
“Reseachers at the University of Leeds are demanding that governments re-introduce rationing schemes on goods like meat, clothing, and fuel in order to fight of climate change. In a study published this week, the academics called for a return to World War II-style government rationing, arguing that it has been neglected as a policy option […]
Greek and Turkish academics debate relations in ABC Australia Radio podcast
ABC Radio Australia has broadcast a discussion with Greek and Turkish academic debating relations between their ancestral homes in a podcast called Greece and Turkey: Bridge over the Aegean. Originally presented as part of the Greek Festival of Sydney earlier in the year, the podcast includes the participation of Dr Andonis Piperoglou — Hellenic Senior […]
Shameless German ‘Academics’ Calls on Ukraine to Surrender to Russia!
A few cowardly German so-called “academics” are calling on Ukraine to surrender to Russia and let Russia conquer them and turn them into slaves. Andrey Melnik has slammed the signatories of an open letter which calls on the West to stop providing Ukraine with weapons. Kiev’s ambassador to Berlin has insulted a group of German […]
EU and UK Academics Collaborated with China’s Military on Thousands of Next-Gen Projects: Report
European universities have collaborated on thousands of joint projects with institutions tied to China’s military, an investigation claimed. Views: 0
Fightback Against Israel Lobby’s Antisemitism Smear Of UK Academics
The question, raised by the petition and letter of complaint, is whether universities like Glasgow will continue to submit to such attacks on academic life under the cover of false or evidence-free claims of anti-Semitism. Glasgow, Scotland – Hundreds of international scholars have begun a fightback against pro-Israel lobbyists who have been scoring increasingly high-profile […]
77 MPs, Trade Unions, NGOs, academics call on British government to save Bahraini hunger striker
Scores of British lawmakers, trade unions, NGOs and prominent academics have written to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to convey their gravest concern over the fate of imprisoned Bahraini academic and human rights defender, Dr Abduljalil AlSingace, who has been on hunger strike since 8 July 2021. In their letter the signatories said AlSingace “is protesting […]
Ancient Ancestors Walking All Over Clovis First Academics
21st Century man is very conscious of the carbon footprint he leaves behind, but footprints of people who lived about 23,000 years ago have just walked all over modern man’s Clovis First Theory. The Clovis First Theory insists that the very first people to enter the Americas were Paleolithic hunters who followed game animals across […]
160 Academics Urge EU to Ban “Israeli” Universities Complicit in Tel Aviv Crimes
July 23, 2021 By Staff, Agencies One-hundred and sixty academics from 21 countries demand that the European Union exclude all “Israeli” academic institutions complicit in the regime’s violation of international law and the rights of Palestinians from the EU’s taxpayer-funded research programs. This is according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa quoting a press […]
350+ academics across North Carolina stand stand in solidarity with Palestinian liberation
Nadia Yaqub UNC Chapel Hill Rebecca L Stein Duke University Anne Allison Duke University Elyse Crystall UNC Chapel Hill Frances S. Hasso Duke University Nancy Kalow Duke University Ralph Litzinger Duke University Sarah Shields University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Danielle Spurlock University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sean Singh Matharoo UNC-Chapel Hill Erika […]
How Turkey’s genocide denial, boosted by shameful academics, threatens Armenian lives today
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
Cultural Trends and Jewish Academics Give New Lifeline to Antisemitism
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, March 20, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad. The recent struggle to remove antisemitic and anti-Israel content from a California ethnic studies curriculum demonstrated the formidable challenge posed by the academic doctrines of Critical Race Theory and “intersectionality.” To the extent that Israel is depicted as a white colonial occupation […]
More Than 350 Academics Sign Open Letter in Support of IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Part of an exhibit on the Holocaust supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Association. Photo: courtesy of IHRA. A group of more than 350 academics from institutions around the world have signed a new letter in support of the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, to help meet the […]
Oxford University Academics Say Teaching Sheet Music is ‘White Supremacy’
By Chris Menahan Sheet music is now canceled! From Breitbart, “Woke Oxford Music Profs Claim Western Sheet Music Has ‘Complicity to White Supremacy’: Report”: The Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ […]
Coup-Supporting Academics Spread Lies To Censor The Grayzone
Above photo: Ecuador’s coup-supporting presidential candidate Yaku Pérez with his wife Manuela Picq (left); Pérez with US Ambassador Michael J. Fitzpatrick (right). The Grayzone’s reporting exposed Ecuador’s pseudo-left candidate Yaku Pérez. A group of academics have circulated a lie-filled open letter aimed at censoring The Grayzone’s reporting on Ecuador’s pseudo-progressive candidate Yaku Pérez. Several of […]
Hungary’s Crackdown on Artists and Academics
The Hungarian-Jewish filmmaker Janos Szasz is best known in the United States for his 2013 film “The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier),” released here in the summer of 2014. It’s based on the international bestseller of the same name, written in French by the Hungarian-born novelist Ágota Kristóf. “The Notebook” is an almost fairy-tale parable of […]
Academics Push ‘Chestfeeding’ Term for Inclusivity, Claim ‘Breastfeeding…May be Ethically Problematic’
By Matt Agorist Controversy has erupted online this month after a hospitals began issuing guidance to midwives to concentrate less on the term breastfeeding in order to be more supportive of transgender and nonbinary parents. Midwives are being instructed to use terms like “chestfeeding” and “chest milk.” According to a report from the UK Times, […]
Dozens Of Jewish Academics Sign Petition Demanding Trump’s Removal To Avert ‘Another’ Holocaust
Dozens of Jewish historians and academics have signed a petition demanding that President Donald Trump, whom they liken to Adolf Hitler, be immediately removed from office so as to “restore democracy” and avert another Holocaust: As scholars of Jewish studies, we are deeply attuned to the convulsions of modern history. We are also cautious about […]