Black Lives Matter movement co-founders Opal Tometti and Alicia Garza as well as affiliated activist Janaya Kahn participated in a panel discussion as part of Cornell’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture held in Sage Chapel. The event was highly anticipated on campus and in Ithaca. Ushers had to turn people away after Sage...
When Legal Insurrection, the conservative website run by Cornell Professor William Jacobson, law, broke news of Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi’s appearance and anti-Israel comments at an Ithaca elementary school third-grade class, it quickly made national news. Jacobson, who frequently speaks on college campuses around the country about anti-Israel campus climates and Boycott, Divestment, and Sactions...
Zillah Eisenstein, a professor politics at Ithaca College, declared in a lecture last Friday that agriculture is “capitalist, racialized patriarchy.” The lecture was titled “Thinking about Hetero-Racist Misogyny in ‘Agriculture'” and took place at nearby Cornell University as part of a seminar series on gender issues in the practice of agriculture. Eisenstein also declared that...
Cornell University College Republicans will host Ward Connerly, founder and President of the American Civil Rights Institute and member of the University of California Board of Regents, for a campus speech on Nov. 11 at 6:00 pm focusing on “The Future of Racial Preferences in Higher Education: Diversity and Fairness.” According to a press release,...
Founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) and outspoken critic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Bassem Eid spoke at Cornell last week, sponsored by CAMERA on Campus and Cornellians for Israel. “I am a human rights activist,” the speaker said as he started his speech, adding that he had never...