Assault on Academic Freedom? UCLA Conference Blames Israel

In recent months, California campuses have been awash in conferences alleging an “assault on academic freedom” against professors who espouse the Palestinian narrative, when, in fact, it is bias against Israel that holds sway. In the latest Campus Watch research, appearing today at Jihad Watch, CW West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell and Breitbart News journalist Adelle Nazarian report on UCLA’s inversion of the truth:

In introducing the first panel, Lara Deeb, professor and chair of anthropology at Scripps College and founding member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI), proclaimed that, “We live in a society that is marked by structural racism” and “hate speech is generating an environment that is averse to learning.”

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.