Salem on the Thames

<p><b>Richard Landes offers a sharply-drawn no-holds-barred dissection of today's campus politics at its worst. As a case study of the damage done to academic integrity by the intrusion of anti-Zionism into college life his book is a must-read.  -Alvin H. Rosenfeld Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Director Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism Indiana University</b></p><p>This compelling volume focuses on the story of Andrew Pessin a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College who was accused by students and faculty of having “directly condoned the extermination of a people” based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. </p><p><i>Salem on the Thames</i> captures the events as they unfolded and discusses topics such as Western sentiments concerning Israeli-Palestinian relations academics and free speech antisemitism and diversity on the college campus and social media and politics. The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards “public shaming” reminiscent of the Salem witch trials that deeply compromises the integrity of academia.</p>