The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA)
was founded in 2006. Last week the university announced that the Institute
will be closed down on the ground that it fails to satisfy the university's
standards: it has "not attracted a critical mass of relevant faculty or
stimulated sufficient new research."
If you go to YIISA's web site and check out the seminars the institute has
sponsored in recent months and the scholarly papers it has sponsored or
disseminated, it seems clear that the institute has been active, productive,
and to some degree hard-hitting. In a commendably measured analysis, Caroline
Glick questions whether the demise of YIISA really reflects an objective, non-
political application of the university's academic standards. You really
should read her whole column; here are some excerpts:
> 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. ...
>
> Senior Yale lecturers like Yale's diplomat-in-residence and eminent
international security studies scholar Charles Hill, and Yale's Sterling
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and ...
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