Benjamin Weinthal

In early June, Yale University pulled the plug on the first U.S.-based academic center devoted to the study of modern anti-Semitism, including the growing phenomenon of Islamic animated hatred of Jews, Israel, and the West. The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) was established in 2006, as the brainchild of Dr. Charles Small, an expert on new expressions of Judeophobia. Yale’s recent reversal is part of its ongoing capitulation to political correctness, and its attendant refusal to criticize fundamentalist Islamism. Take the example of Yale University Press and the University’s president, Richard Levin, who censored the publication of twelve Danish cartoons lampooning radical Islam and Mohammed. In October 2009, Yale refused to publish the cartoons in Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen’s book The Cartoons that Shook the World. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269949/yale-s-capitulation-benjamin-weinthal