US academic discourse exploited to spread extremism

US academic discourse exploited to spread extremism

American universities have become strategic targets for extremist groups, which use student gatherings as fronts for their ideas.

Palestine campus activists, academics stand up to new McCarthyism

Rank and file activists within the National Tertiary Education Union organised a national day of action for Palestine at nine university campuses. Jim McIlroy reports.

The student organization did not expect Milan Mazurek to release a manipulative video after leaving the university. Some educators were also concerned that a group of university students sympathized with the extremist.

Academic Resistance Standing Firm Against Political Suppression

BY BARRY TRACHTENBERG Columbia University’s decision to accept and even go beyond the Trump administration’s extortionist demands forces us to recognize a sobering truth that applies not only to Columbia but to far too many of the scholarly spaces within which we work: Their response is neither a surrender nor a capitulation but is a…