Dartmouth Gender Research Institute Closes; Jasbir Puar Lives On

Dartmouth College’s Gender Research Institute, best known for sponsoring Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar’s notoriously anti-Semitic 2016 talk in which she accused Israel of organ thievery, has closed. Unfortunately, Puar’s work carries on with the publication of her book, The Right to Maim, next month, alleging that Israel “enable[s] the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

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.
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