Salem on the Thames : : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College / / Richard Landes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Landes, Richard,
• MitwirkendeR: Baumann, Fred,; Gordon, John,; Landes, Richard,; Romirowsky, Asaf,; Thorne, Ashley,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Antisemitism in America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge --; Condensed Timeline --; Part One. WHEN CRITICIZING HAMAS BECAME A CAMPUS HATE CRIME --; 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor --; 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim --; 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style --; Part Two. STUDIES IN PESSINOLOGY --; 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency --; 5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin --; 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues --; Part Three. REFLECTIONS: SALEM ON THE THAMES- STAMPEDING A HERD OF CATS --; 7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us --; 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 --; 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644691007; 9783110688207; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525; 9783110696301
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644691007?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard Landes.

In the Spring of 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the Thames River. Only this time instead of sorcery it was Zionism; instead of punishing in the name of God's law it was in the name of anti-hate speech and inclusive excellence; instead of young teenage girls leading the hysteria it was college-aged social warriors stampeding 200 professors into sacrificing one of their colleagues, and thereby contributing to a wave of administration-promoted hate-speech at their college.The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards "public shaming" that not only deeply compromises the integrity of academia, but increasingly spreads to many aspects of our society, so susceptible to media-driven feeding frenzies.