The scandal at BU’s now-folded Center for Antiracist Research, where its head, Ibram X. Kendi, burned through $30 million in grant money in three years with almost nothing to show for it, and where more than half of the staff was unceremoniously fired in late September, has not died down. And the scandal goes beyond […]
The Graves of Academe (#714): The ‘Center For Antiracist Research’ at Boston University
Two journalists at BU, Molly Farrar and Lydia Evans, have performed a great service in reporting on the multifarious failures of at BU’s Center for Antiracist Research, the brainchild and fiefdom of one Ibram X. Kendi, author of How To Be An Antiracist, who has proceeded to lead the center to rack and ruin. The Center for Antiracist […]
BU Professor Reveals This Week’s New Thing That’s Racist: Property
New in PJ Media: It costs $58,000 a year to attend Boston University, but don’t think that for all that money you’re going to get anything resembling, say, an education. No, Boston University today, like most other American colleges and universities, is dedicated to turning out thoroughly indoctrinated Leftists who will serve as reliable cadres […]
Boston University Set to Hire Professor Who Accuses Israeli Soldiers of ‘Rape’ and ‘Systematic Massacres’
My latest in PJ Media: The Women’s Studies department at Boston University is considering hiring a noted academic named Sarah Ihmoud; the offer is “imminent.” It’s easy to see why: Ihmoud would be a plum hire for the department, as she represents the cutting edge in academic thinking today. Her paper, “Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, […]
Boston University considers hiring professor who accuses Israel of massacres and mass rapes of Palestinians
“Boston University has been considering hiring an anti-Israel postdoctoral associate as a professor,” Sarah Ihmoud. Ihmoud isn’t just anti-Israel, she is an antisemitic propagandist “who portrays Jews as rapists, Jewish leaders and academics as promoting rape … and more.” It is dangerous to allow her to be teaching students. It is no secret that campuses […]