The alleged stabbing murder of a department head at one of China’s top universities by a junior teacher has exposed a system which many claim exploits young staff. Jiang Wenhua, a teacher at Fudan University, one of the top five universities in China, allegedly killed his boss Wang Yongzhen, head of the School of Mathematical Sciences, on campus on June.
Anti-Semitism at Rutgers isn’t all academic
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Anti-Semitism at Rutgers isn’t all academic
Robbing Jew-hatred of its particularity is the aim of Students for Justice in Palestine. But university administrators can be colluders through cowardice.
(June 1, 2021 / JNS) It’s a little hard to combat a phenomenon by kowtowing to its promoters, but leave it to academia to make a feeble attempt at doing so. Having spent the past few decades favoring sophistry over the imparting of knowledge, American institutions of higher learning are well-versed in double-speak.
Imagine their surprise, then, when even their best efforts at intellectual manipulation are met with derision by the very “woke” bullies whom they aim to please. Take the latest brouhaha at New Jersey-based Rutgers University as a case in point.
I was shocked to open my inbox on Sunday, and receive a message that Harold Brackman had passed away. Harold.
Taking care to eliminate the particularity of antisemitism a no-no in intersectional circles that consider the Jews to be born of “white privilege” the two Rutgers honchos hastily turned their attention to George Floyd. His “murder” last year, they asserted, “brought into sharp focus the racial injustices that continue to plague our country, and over the past year there has [sic] been attacks on our Asian American Pacific Islander citizens, the spaces of Indigenous peoples defiled, and targeted oppression and other assaults against Hindus and Muslims.”