TY  - BOOK
AU  - Landes,Richard
AU  - Baumann,Fred
AU  - Gordon,John
AU  - Landes,Richard
AU  - Romirowsky,Asaf
AU  - Thorne,Ashley
TI  - Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College 
T2  - Antisemitism in America
SN  - 9781644690987
AV  - LC89 
U1  - 378.746/5 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Hate speech
KW  - Zionism
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Academia
KW  - BDS
KW  - Connecticut College
KW  - Jewish studies
KW  - North American colleges and universities
KW  - US colleges and universities
KW  - anti-Israel
KW  - anti-semitism
KW  - anti-zionism
KW  - antisemitism
KW  - college campus
KW  - college journalism
KW  - education
KW  - free speech
KW  - hate-speech
KW  - hostile learning climates
KW  - persecution
KW  - public shaming
KW  - racism
KW  - religious intolerance
KW  - social justice warriors
KW  - social media
KW  - staged emergencies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge --; Condensed Timeline --; Part One. WHEN CRITICIZING HAMAS BECAME A CAMPUS HATE CRIME --; 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor --; 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim --; 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style --; Part Two. STUDIES IN PESSINOLOGY --; 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency --; 5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin --; 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues --; Part Three. REFLECTIONS: SALEM ON THE THAMES- STAMPEDING A HERD OF CATS --; 7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us --; 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 --; 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism --; Bibliography; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In the Spring of 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the Thames River. Only this time instead of sorcery it was Zionism; instead of punishing in the name of God's law it was in the name of anti-hate speech and inclusive excellence; instead of young teenage girls leading the hysteria it was college-aged social warriors stampeding 200 professors into sacrificing one of their colleagues, and thereby contributing to a wave of administration-promoted hate-speech at their college.The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards "public shaming" that not only deeply compromises the integrity of academia, but increasingly spreads to many aspects of our society, so susceptible to media-driven feeding frenzies
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