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

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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