Doron Ben-Atar, a professor of American Studies at Fordham University, called on his department to protest the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel. In response, the university accused him of a Title-IX violation for religious discrimination and conducted a Soviet-style investigation. Ben-Atar, who was eventually cleared, sums up his experience thus:
Administrators and colleagues failed to protect my First Amendment rights, and fed the assault on my character. A person utterly unqualified to understand anti-Semitism sat in judgment of a scholar who publishes on and teaches the subject. A report was issued without letting me even defend myself. My choice to have legal representation was cited as proof of my guilt. Most painful was realizing that my commitment to fighting anti-Semitism, so central to who I am, has been used against me in a most unethical manner not only by the member of the faculty who filed the baseless charge, but also by the office of the University Counsel.
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