Discuss “SAY WHAT?”

University communities across the United States are facing a campaign of intimidation directly threatening academic freedom. Professors at Columbia University facing charges of institutionalized anti-Semitism have been subjected to death threats, hate messages, and massive sabotage of their e-mail correspondence. Yet these charges were found to have been grounded on "no evidence" by an ad hoc faculty committee on March 31. A victim of these tactics at Columbia, Prof. Joseph Massad, lamented, "The Columbia University administration acted as a collaborator with the witch-hunters instead of defending me and offering itself as a refuge from rightwing McCarthyism."

Most recently two speakers invited by Carnegie Mellon University, Ali Abunimeh...