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- Title: Salem on the Thames
- Author : Richard Landes
- Release Date : January 14, 2020
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,History,Americas,Judaism,United States,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1744 KB
Description
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.