op-eds from our members and associates…
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The Foolishness of Fencing Off Genius: Why an academic boycott of Israel hurts the world
by Boaz Golany of the Technion Institute. His article lays out systematic arguments about why such boycotts create broad losses and concludes, “To boycott Israeli academia is to boycott the future of human advancement—and history shows that when you try to wall off genius, you only succeed in locking yourself in the dark.”
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The film Indivisible: The Israeli Academy after October 7th
We acknowledge the hard work and creativity of Evan Morris, Roya Hakakian, and Edward Kaplan on behalf of the Yale Forum for Jewish Faculty and Friends, the predecessor of YJAF. What you think you know about Israel and Israeli universities might be all wrong. It’s important to hear from Israelis. It’s important to get the facts.…
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How the New York Times Framed the War Between Israel and Hamas
by Edieal Pinker. This study examines the New York Times coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas from 7 October 2023 through 7 June 2024. Drawing on a corpus of 1,559 news articles I document a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role…
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Academic Freedom and Israel-Bashing on Campus
by Edward H. Kaplan What is it about the end of the school year that brings Israel-bashing on campus to the fore?
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Wars and Peace: Memoirs of a Conflict
By Edieal J. Pinker Deputy Dean for Strategy and BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research at the Yale University School of Management.
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Behind the campus protests
By Edward H. Kaplan Faculty who attack Israel in the classroom, disrupt Israeli lecturers, and boycott Israeli scholars are the greater danger by far.
