More Law v. Antisemitism

David Schraub writes about the ADL's announcement that it will not sponsor future editions of the Law vs. Antisemitism Conference unless the organizers grant it the right to exclude speakers, including those from Jewish Voice for Peace. David addresses the problem from his experience as site host for the 2023 Conference at Lewis & Clark. I agree with everything David says about the craven anti-intellectualism of the ADL and Academic Engagement Network.

I served as site chair for the 2024 Conference at FIU (link includes videos of every panel), held about five months after October 7. We discussed questions of balance in organizing panels, but encountered no demands about panel composition and no demands about who should or should not be allowed to appear or present at the conference. I cannot imagine the conference chairs will agree to this demand. This means the purported leading advocacy group on antisemitism will no longer sponsor the largest academic conference devoted to the issue because it cannot dictate the ideological content of the conference.