In that period, “faculty and staff at institutions of higher learning across the country experienced increased scrutiny from college administrators and trustees, as well as Congress and the FBI, for their speech, their academic work, and their political activities.”
He wrote to Kotlikoff just two days after Torres’s post, saying the course description’s assertion of there being “settler colonialism” in Israel/Palestine is a “false premise” that “seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel” and “justify Palestinian terrorism.” Rosensaft said it’s “safe to assume” that Cheyfitz would portray the atrocities of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack in “a positive light.”
Matei was provost at Central European University when the parliament led by Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, passed a law in 2017 essentially forcing his institution out of the country.
