The Israel litmus-test and scholarly freedom
by By Mark Oppenheimer, Los Angeles Times
Sep 11, 2017
3 minutes
It might seem an insignificant dispute, a tiny ship in a small bottle floating on a far-off sea. Who cares if a UCLA history professor keeps his job as president of the Center for Jewish History in New York City?
But the fight over David N. Myers, who was tapped to head the Center in June, and whom right-wing adversaries are now trying to get fired, is about America, and Jews, and intellectual freedom. And it's about the intrusion of politics and money into the world of scholarship.
The Center for Jewish History
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