Richard L. Cravatts

Richard L. Cravatts

Richard L. Cravatts, PhD, is president emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

His publications, available on Amazon, include:

Anti- Israel forces target campus newspapers

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — When Elmer Davis, director of FDR’s Office of War Information, observed that “. . . you cannot do much with people who are convinced that they are the sole authorized custodians of Truth and that whoever differs from them is ipso facto wrong” he may well have […]

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UNESCO vote opens door to continued terrorism against Israel by in essence labeling Jews as usurpers

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts –Seeming to parallel the dystopian world described by George Orwell in 1984 in which history and fact are manipulated to serve political ends, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently voted 24-6 to approve a resolution stripping the Temple Mount and Western Wall of its

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Colleges offer one-sided, anti- Israel courses

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of California Regents entitled, “A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California.” In that report, the association

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Leftists reshape facts to fit their theories

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts –As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group, Hasbara Fellowships Canada, was barred from participating in a “Social Justice Week” event organized by the Student Association of Durham College and University

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Campus groups stifle free speech — except theirs

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — When GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s March 11th rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion was shut down last week by hundreds of leftist protestors, comprised of activists from Moveon.org, Black Lives Matter, Muslim groups, and even unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the morally indignant protestors had

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Why Trump’s ‘neutrality’ in Mideast won’t work

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — “My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward,” wrote Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in his 1987 book, Trump: The Art of the Deal. “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.” How Mr. Trump’s

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Oberlin prof. pushes anti- Semitic conspiracy theories

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON –“Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history operate behind our backs?” For a wide range of ideological extremists, anti-Semitism is still the stupid answer for why what goes wrong with the

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Rutgers Prof. revives blood libel against Israel

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts –Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously announced that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and drank their blood during Passover season. That medieval blood libel, largely abandoned in

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Women’s studies group votes boycott of Israel

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the lead of the American Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, the Asian Studies

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SJP trumpets ‘free speech’ for itself, not others

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD  BOSTON — Of the many intellectual perversions currently taking root on college campuses, perhaps none is more contradictory to what should be one of higher education’s core values than the suppression of free speech. With alarming regularity, speakers are shouted down, booed, jeered, and barraged with vitriol, all at the

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Free speech at Wesleyan for those with ‘proper’ ideas

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — In what is yet more evidence that universities have become, at least where campus free speech is concerned, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” as Chester E. Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary of Education has described them, the Wesleyan University community has been undergoing collective

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SJP wants ‘free speech’ for itself, not for others

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was speaking about those well-meaning, but naïve college students who “torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Lewis’s observation

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Findings of ‘inquiry’ into Israel already known

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Faculty at the University of Southampton in England will be sponsoring a three-day conference in April, “International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism,” conceived of to “explore the relatedness of the suffering and injustice in Palestine to the foundation and protection of a state

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