Caroline B. Glick: Yale, Jews, and Double Standards Jewish World Review June 10, 2011 / 8 Sivan, 5771 Yale, Jews, and Double Standards By Caroline B. Glick http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For its part, the university claims that the move was the result of purely academic considerations. While not clear-cut, an analysis of the story lends to the conclusion that politics were in all likelihood the decisive factor in the decision. And the implications of Yale's move for the scholarly inquiry into anti-Semitism are deeply troubling. The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) was founded in 2006. Its purpose was to provide a scholarly approach to the study of contemporary and historical an...
