Our report exposes the breadth of anti-Muslim hate online with examples from leading social media platforms, provides an overview of existing laws governing hate speech, and offers steps that Internet users can take to respond effectively to hate speech online: namely, reporting and counterspeech. ...Read More The federal government’s current...

Civil society needs to take a stand

International Woman's Day, celebrated worldwide on March 8, is an occasion for everyone to reaffirm the necessity to bring about the profound changes required to create a world in which women's rights are recognized. Women's rights entail far more than just equal civil rights at a time even these are given perfunctory standing and they are not even...

We won’t take this lying down. No, we will join together, combine our voices, and raise our own kind of hell. The 2016 U.S. presidential election is still a fresh wound for many in our readership. For others, lamenting its outcome sounds like whining. But when the victor’s platform runs against the foundations of this journal, to be silent about the...

Two things that everyone who shared or read news of the arrests outside of CUNY Central last night urgently needs to know: 1) The union pre-arranged the arrests with the NYPD. Those who agreed to be arrested were brought down the street, given a desk ticket, and released. Never mind that the union president claims the arrests were in part on behalf...

This evening I gave the following remarks in the second of two special convention sessions on the boycott of Israeli academic institutions held by the Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee as part of the association’s process of considering a resolution on boycott that could come at next year’s convention. The four...