Salem on the Thames

Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College

• Author(s): Richard Landes,
• Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
• Pages: 218
• ISBN_10: 1644693704
  ISBN_13: 9781644693704
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict , Religion / Judaism / History , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Jewish Studies , History / United States / 21st Century , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , History / Modern / 21st Century , History / Social History ,

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This compelling volume focuses on the story of Andrew Pessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accused by students and faculty of having “directly condoned the extermination of a people” based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Salem on the Thames captures the events as they unfolded and discusses topics such as Western sentiments concerning Israeli-Palestinian relations, academics and free speech, antisemitism and diversity on the college campus, and social media and politics. The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards “public shaming” reminiscent of the Salem witch trials that deeply compromises the integrity of academia.