{"product_id":"salem-on-the-thames-moral-panic-anti-zionism-and-the-triumph-of-hate-speech-at-connecticut-college-9781644690987","title":"Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Spring of 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the Thames River. Only this time instead of sorcery it was Zionism; instead of punishing in the name of God's law it was in the name of anti-hate speech and inclusive excellence; instead of young teenage girls leading the hysteria it was college-aged social warriors stampeding 200 professors into sacrificing one of their colleagues, and thereby contributing to a wave of administration-promoted hate-speech at their college.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards \"public shaming\" that not only deeply compromises the integrity of academia, but increasingly spreads to many aspects of our society, so susceptible to media-driven feeding frenzies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSalem on the Thames\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays, but most of them, including a very helpful annotated chronology of events, are by Landes, who has also compiled an extensive archive of primary-source documents at his blog. He and his other contributors dissect each and every way Pessin was sucker punched, lied to, manipulated, and thrown under the bus.”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e— Elliot Kaufman, \u003ci\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface — Richard Landes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction — Asaf Romirowsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondensed Timeline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: When Criticizing Hamas Became a Campus Hate Crime — Richard Landes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Studies in Pessinology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency — Ashley Thorne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"I Was Rude, You Were Evil\": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin — John Gordon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues — Fred Baumann\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: Reflections: Salem on the Thames – Stampeding a Herd of Cats — Richard Landes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV: Appendix – Documents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePessin Affair: Dramatis Personae — Online Petition Posted March 18, 2015\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359904760151,"sku":"9781644690987","price":70.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644690987.jpg?v=1754126068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/salem-on-the-thames-moral-panic-anti-zionism-and-the-triumph-of-hate-speech-at-connecticut-college-9781644690987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}