The American Association of University Professors Celebrates Anti-Semitism
Spitting on its own face.
May 28, 2020
Spitting on its own face.
Last week, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an influential academic organization, announced that Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University would receive one of its annual awards, citing her “courage, persistence, political foresight, and concern for human rights . . . in her scholarship, teaching, [and] public advocacy” as well as her efforts to “advance the agenda for social change in Palestine, the United States, and internationally.” Those efforts, notes Jonathan Marks, include supporting the exclusion of the Jewish campus group Hillel from a university-wide event, and lambasting the school’s president for apologizing for that exclusion:
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Why would Riyadh want to undermine the security of a reliable ally?
In the past, it has done too little, too late.
Covenant, mutual responsibility, and the message of Shavuot.
Deeds of lovingkindness.