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:

Obama, Kerry, Rice forge anti- ISIS coalition

By Donald H. Harrison In association with President Obama’s Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, there was a round of diplomatic consultations in Washington D.C. with various envoys from Middle Eastern countries, including Israel. Additionally the administration made two announcements of note. One of those announcements was a memorandum signed by President Obama on Friday, Feb. […]

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BDS movement supresses free thought on campuses

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is only with Israelis and their government’s policies, not with Jews themselves.  But

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Anti- BDS conference to convene March 21 in L.A.

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs will hold its first community  anti-BDS  (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) conference from March 21-23, 2015 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. BDS, an international propaganda campaign that seeks to delegitimize and erode support for the Jewish state, is the latest threat to Israel.  This conference brings together the most comprehensive assembly of renowned

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UC Davis students ally themselves with terrorism

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON– In a morally coherent world, the chilling statement “Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis” would not have been spoken publicly, and certainly not by an elected student leader at an American public university. But in California, the veritable epicenter of academic anti-Israelism and its attendant stealth jihad, this statement,

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The Ivory Tower’s attempt to Nazify Jews

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON– “What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken

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Anti- Israel faculty take on the ADL

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–Since its founding in 2001, the radical campus group Students for Justice in Palestine has had as its mission to demonize Israel and promote a campaign to accuse the Jewish state of apartheid, racism, brutal occupation, and crimes against humanity, among other accusations. Its radical behavior has created a toxic

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Willful blindness to academic anti-Semitism

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–As yet more evidence that academics are regularly able to engage in what George Orwell sardonically referred to as “doublethink,” “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them,” this month 40 professors of Jewish studies published a denunciation of a study that

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The moral corruption of the political left

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge some three weeks ago, the streets of American and European cities have been crammed with activists

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Academic lies in the war against Israel

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — 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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Israel, not Gaza, is the victim of this conflict

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s observation that “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence,” the world’s attention has turned once again to the clash between Hamas and Israel, as the Jewish state

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Hatred of Jews is basis of Middle East conflict

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–The disheartening, though not entirely surprising, breakdown of talks between Israel and the Palestinians marked yet another failure by the two sides to come closer to an agreement that would usher the way for a Palestinian state. Yet, no sooner had the talks collapsed than blame was being assigned by

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Stealth anti-Semitism in middle school

  By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — By this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students to “read and discuss multiple,

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SPME protests blockage of classroom by Israel foes

PHILADELPHIA (Press Release)—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass roots organization of over 30,000 academic members based in Philadelphia, expressed its great concern over recent events at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y..  Controversy erupted there after an “International Studies 110” class (IS)  traveled over Spring break to Israel to study water policy. The IS

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U of Michigan BDS debate rife with anti- Semitism

By Asaf Romirowsky PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After hours of discussion and debate, the Central Student Government (CSG) at the University of Michigan reversed the indefinite postponement of the BDS resolution and subsequently voted to not pass it during a 6-hour meeting in a 25-9 vote on Tuesday, March 25.  During the entire process, hundreds of students lined

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