Andrew Pessin

3 weeks ago | andrewpessin.substack.com | Andrew Pessin

I’ve known that the problem of campus Jew-hate was bad since at least 2015, which was when I began to track it seriously. That tracking led to my co-producing, with Doron Ben-Atar, the 2018 volume Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS, which attempted to document the phenomenon both quantitatively and qualitatively. Though the reality that that book documents seemed awful at the time, it seems quaint in comparison to today.

1 month ago | andrewpessin.substack.com | Andrew Pessin

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2 months ago | futureofjewish.com | Andrew Pessin

Future of Jewish is the ultimate newsletter by and for people passionate about Judaism and Israel. Subscribe to better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. This is a guest essay written by Andrew Pessin, a professor at Connecticut College and author of the book, “Anti-Zionism on Campus.”You can also listen to the podcast version of this essay on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, and Spotify.

2 months ago | algemeiner.com | Andrew Pessin

Ben M. Freeman’s The Jews: An Indigenous People deserves a spot on every Jewish person’s bookshelf, but especially Jews engaged in fighting the war in defense of Israel on campuses and elsewhere.

2 months ago | andrewpessin.substack.com | Andrew Pessin

Not many years ago there was a stylish professor who became exceedingly fond of their newest theory and spent all their time on promulgating it. The theory, they found, applied to everything, to everything said or done and every ordinary interaction. Instead of saying, as one might about any other professor, “The professor is teaching,” at this college they always said, “The stylish professor is theorizing.”“My theory is the most magnificent theory imaginable,” the stylish professor might say.