Science, Medicine, & Education

OpEd: No room for reasonable discourse on college campuses

On Tuesday, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake became the latest Republican to denounce President Trump. Flake blasted Trump’s “reckless, outrageous, and undignified” behavior, echoing recent statements by Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker and former President George W. Bush. Under Trump, Flake argued, American politics has become a nonstop slugfest of invective and falsehood. “We must never regard […]

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Berkeley student newspaper apologizes for Alan Dershowitz cartoon decried as anti-Semitic

The University of California Berkeley student newspaper has apologized for an editorial cartoon of Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz that had been denounced as anti-Semitic. “We have seen with sharp clarity the pain and anger caused by an editorial cartoon that ran online in our opinion section on Oct. 18, and we apologize for

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Another Canadian university rejects BDS

The University of Winnipeg Students” Association (UWSA) on Wednesday voted against a motion in favor of adopting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Anti-Israel activists were unable to persuade a critical mass of University of Winnipeg students to support this initiative, thanks to students who organized the campaign opposing it. The move was

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IDF reservists tell of their outreach to Arabs, Jews

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Of course, Israeli Reserve soldiers Ilan and Iyyar can talk about war.  Israelis grow up with the threat of it.  After high school, young men and women alike are conscripted into the Army, where they learn how to defend their country against external threats.  Iyyar, in fact, has

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Rutgers professor says Judaism ‘most racist religion’

Rutgers University announced that it is reviewing the “matter” of a professor who posted a series of anti-Semitic posts on social media. Michael Chikindas, a microbiology professor at Rutgers” department of food science and director of the university”s Center for Digestive Health, posted dozens of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories blaming Jews and Israel for many of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

California just passed a law to rein in drug prices. Here’s why it’s unlikely to make much difference

Over bitter protests from the pharmaceutical industry, California this month enacted a law that requires drug makers to explain and justify prices for some medicines. Predictably, those who backed the effort are hailing the move as a significant victory, because they hope this will become the first step toward reining in drug prices. To be

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Puerto Rico reopens 119 schools but it could be months, or never, for many more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — If it weren’t for the tangled clump of power lines on a nearby corner and the partially unhinged stop sign down the street, Tuesday might have seemed like the first day of a normal school year at Julio Selles Sola School in San Juan’s Rio Piedras neighborhood. Hundreds of students

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Faculty support for BDS fans anti-Semitism

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– A new study released today by AMCHA Initiative reveals how academic boycotts of Israel pose a serious threat to Jewish students and significantly increase the likelihood of anti-Semitism on campus. Much has been written in recent years detailing how academic boycotts, and particularly an academic boycott of Israel, are an assault on academic free

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

At White House opioid commission meeting, insurance industry gets a scolding

WASHINGTON – Patrick Kennedy, it seemed, had been waiting for a public opportunity speak directly to the nation’s health insurers. “The historic treatment of addiction and mental illness has been a separate and unequal process,” the former Rhode Island congressman and a member of the president’s opioid commission told a group of insurance executives on

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