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Richard L. Cravatts

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Richard L. CravattsMay 18, 2022

Rewarding and valorizing Jew-hatred at CUNY

Most troubling is that Nerdeen Kiswani, who has spouted anti-Israel invective for years, was chosen to give a commencement address at the law school not in spite of her radical speech, but because of it.

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Richard L. CravattsMay 2, 2022

An open letter to the editorial board of ‘The Harvard Crimson’

Your commitment to and promotion of the toxic BDS campaign reveals your bigotry and anti-Semitism.

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Richard L. CravattsApril 26, 2022

Airbrushing Jews out of Jerusalem

While the recent violence was predictably blamed on Israel, it was neither random nor pointless, and had a strategic and tactical purpose.

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Richard L. CravattsApril 14, 2022

Bulldozing debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Being pro-Palestinian on campus, by definition, only means being anti-Israel, relentlessly campaigning against the Jewish state and proclaiming its many alleged predations.

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Richard L. CravattsApril 6, 2022

Suppressing pro-Israel views at the University of Chicago

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

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Richard L. CravattsApril 4, 2022

McGill and Tufts mobilize against Israel

Rippling in these university communities is corrosive bigotry towards Jewish communal life that goes well beyond mere “criticism of Israel,” the oft-repeated refrain that anti-Semites use to justify their virulent attacks on the Jewish state.

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Richard L. CravattsMarch 16, 2022

A double standard for free speech at Vanderbilt

The cry-bullies—those aggressor activists who transform into victims when their ideological opponents answer back—can’t take criticism but are perfectly willing to dish it out.

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Richard L. CravattsFebruary 21, 2022

Déjà vu all over again at Harvard

Its discrimination against Asians is reminiscent of its treatment of Jews, but for different reasons.

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Richard L. CravattsJanuary 4, 2022

The mendacious apartheid slur against Israel

On university campuses, where the charge of racism is the most damning and serious charge one can make against an individual, organization, or state, the apartheid slander against Israel has been a core part of the ongoing campus campaign to malign the Jewish state.

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Richard L. CravattsDecember 27, 2021

The ascent of the crybully in campus anti-Israel activism

In the fantasy world of toxic anti-Israel activists, they are always the victim

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Richard L. CravattsDecember 20, 2021

On campus, being pro-Palestinian means being anti-Israel

Activism for Palestinian self-determination has never been about statehood but about eliminating Israel.

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Richard L. CravattsDecember 7, 2021

MESA’s shameful betrayal of academic freedom

In calling for an academic boycott against Israel, the Middle East Studies Association reveals its obsessive hatred of the Jewish state.

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Richard L. CravattsNovember 22, 2021

Shutting down pro-Israel speech at Duke

“Do other clubs need to apologize for writing statements that some may disagree with?” asked the national branch of Students Supporting Israel.

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Richard L. CravattsNovember 16, 2021

Editorializing for Hamas

How an opinion piece in the student newspaper at the University of Connecticut exposes what wrong in the debate about Israel.

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Richard L. CravattsNovember 10, 2021

Academic departments need to steer clear of activism against Israel

Why academic departments in an American university would be taking a moral stand on a political situation in the Middle East in the first place—and not only that, but on behalf of a terror-led genocidal group like Hamas—is another question.

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