Ethics and the Institutional Review Board: The Need for a System of Checks and Balances in Academia and Academic Research
The Congressional Education and Workforce Committee recently issued a report highlighting the rise of radical antisemitism in American higher education. It noted the persistent failure of our country’s foremost universities to recognize and take shared responsibility for the rise in Jew-hate that has spiraled out of control across many of our nation’s college campuses. […]
When Antisemitism Isn’t Worth Showing Up For: Absence, Interpretation, and the Fragility of Trauma-Informed Solidarity
A few months ago, a department at a large public university in the Midwest region of the US hosted a talk titled “Traumatic Invalidation and Antisemitism: Fostering Resilience and Creating a Trauma-Informed College”. The session, delivered by Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern of Harvard Medical School, was part of our department’s long-running Race, Justice, and Equity […]
When Textbooks Revive an Ancient Lie
Antisemitism has taken many forms across history, adapting to different cultural and political contexts; yet one particular accusation has endured with remarkable persistence: the claim that Jews bear collective responsibility for the death of Jesus. This accusation took shape within early Christian rhetoric, where certain Gospel passages, most notably Matthew 27:25, were interpreted as affirming […]
Gaza and the Limits of Moral Expertise: How Ethical Deliberation Gave Way to Moral Performance in Academic Philosophy
The Pretensions of Moral Expertise Moral philosophy and professional ethics have long treated war as one of their most challenging concerns. They have given shape to various ways of thinking about the morality of war in abstract ways, while also returning, time and again, to wars as they unfold in the world. Across nearly every […]
Beyond Condemnation: Confronting Antisemitism and Antizionism in the APA
This article was originally published by The Times of Israel Blogs on January 20, 2026, at [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/beyond-condemnation-confronting-antisemitism-and-antizionism-in-the-apa/]. All rights remain with the original author and publisher. Professional organizations in the mental health field are intended to serve as a home for seasoned practitioners, early-career professionals, and students alike—providing meaningful opportunities for education, networking, collective advocacy, […]
From Archetype to Libel: The Misinterpretation of Amalek in Genocide Accusations
The claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is among the most significant antisemitic calumnies of modern times. As Holocaust scholar Norman Goda explains, the genocide accusation serves several purposes. It plays on antisemitic tropes of Jews as xenophobic, hateful, and thirsting for vengeance. The genocide libel is frequently paired with the charge that […]
When Academia Enables Harm: Antisemitism in Mental Health Scholarship
This article was originally published by The Times of Israel Blogs on October 10, 2025, at [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-academia-enables-harm-antisemitism-in-mental-health-scholarship/]. All rights remain with the original author and publisher. In July 2025, I published an article focused on the abandonment of Jewish therapists within the mental health field, shedding light on pervasive antisemitism in the discipline. The responses […]
European Campuses Embrace Increasing Antisemitism: Presented at the European Parliament (Brussels)
Presented at the European Parliament, Brussels, September 3, 2025: I must begin by congratulating B’nai B’rith International, Democ, and the European Union of Jewish Students on the September 2025 publication of their extremely important report, “‘A Climate of Fear and Exclusion’: Antisemitism at European Universities”. Covering nine countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, […]
A Broken Trust: An Educator’s Reckoning with a Post-October 7 World
This article was originally published by The Times of Israel Blogs on July 18, 2025, at [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-broken-trust-an-educators-reckoning-with-a-post-october-7-world]. All rights remain with the original author and publisher. For twenty years, I didn’t just work in public education; I lived it. I had the profound privilege of building my career on a foundation of equity, serving as […]
Antisemitism in Iran’s Nuclear Discourse: The Fusion of Ideology and Strategy
Introduction Few contemporary foreign policy challenges embody the entanglement of ideology and strategy as vividly as Iran’s nuclear program. Since its covert facilities at Natanz and Arak were exposed in 2002, Iran has been at the center of a fraught international debate about proliferation, sanctions, and the prospects for regional war. Much of the scholarly […]