Media Appearance Tag

TONIGHT: I’m Moderating Online Panel To Educate Jewish High School Students On The Hostility They Will Face At College

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2020 9 Comments

I'm moderating an online panel this Sunday, October 18, at 7 p.m. Eastern, to help prepare for Jewish high school students for the hostile environment they will face on many college campuses. The program is sponsored by The Israel Group:

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Can Higher Ed Be Saved From ‘Cancel Culture’?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2020 11 Comments

Tonight, Sunday, August 30, 2020, at 8 p.m. Eastern, we will have our panel on Saving Higher Ed From Cancel Culture. Registration is required, sign up here. We will close registration, which now exceeds 500 people, no later than 5 p.m. today.

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“you tried to hurt me, but you ended up hurting the law school and you ended up hurting the students”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2020 26 Comments

I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the podcast Cancelled, hosted by Rob Rosen and Desma Simon. My segment was about 30 minutes long, and we covered not only my situation at Cornell Law School, but also developments more broadly in higher education.

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“cancel culture is meant to silence the people who don’t have protection, who don’t have power, who don’t have a platform”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2020 24 Comments

On Friday, July 24, 2020, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by FOX Business' Gerry Baker on "WSJ at Large" regarding cancel culture. The interview was enjoyable for at least a couple of reasons.

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Polling: Cancel Culture Is Real and Silences Conservatives Most

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2020 30 Comments

Here we go again, the great debate over whether "cancel culture" is real. It is real, as I wrote in my op-ed at Real Clear Politics, Cancel Culture Is Real. The people claiming cancel culture is not a real thing, that it's just a gripe of people who don't like being criticized, almost always are those on the giving, not receiving, end -- the people on campuses and in the culture who hold power in given institutions.

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Supreme Court: Mixed rulings on grand jury and congressional subpoenas for Trump tax and financial records

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 09, 2020 64 Comments

The Supreme Court has ruled in two cases whether Trump's financial records and tax returns are subject to subpoena.

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“to shrink away from this challenge would be a huge mistake”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2020 11 Comments

I was interviewed by Virginia Allen for The Daily Signal's podcast regarding the issues I'm facing at Cornell Law School, and issues facing academia and the nation more generally regarding the Black Lives Matter Movement. You can listen to the full podcast and read the full transcript at The Daily Signal website, Students, Faculty Target Professor for Writing Honest History of Black Lives Matter.

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“How long it goes on, I don’t know. I’m certainly not going to quit.” (Ben Shapiro Radio Show)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2020 58 Comments

I appeared earlier today on the Ben Shapiro Radio Show to talk about the panic sweeping the country as it is playing out at Cornell Law School. The audio is below. You can see my prior posts for background:

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Thank you for your support in this time of cultural purge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2020 113 Comments

So there I was, minding my own business, enjoying my newborn second grandaughter (did I mention that?), when shit rolled downhill at me in the form of fury from some Cornell Law School faculty, alumni, and students, because I told some hard truths and expressed some tough opinions about the start of the organized Black Lives Matter Movement and the recent rioting and looting.

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Cornell campus climate “so far beyond political correctness”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2020 49 Comments

I appeared last night on the Laura Ingraham show to talk about my post, There’s an effort to get me fired at Cornell for criticizing the Black Lives Matter Movement. Much of the conversation turned on a Statement issued late yesterday afternoon by Cornell Law School Dean Eduardo M. Peñalver defending my academic freedom and stating that no disciplinary action would be taken, but otherwise condemning me.

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Facebook creates unaccountable international Board to decide which content gets censored

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2020 94 Comments

Anti-conservative bias by the social media giants which dominate our means of political communication has been a topic we've covered for many years. That problem is a main focus of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, and our speaking appearances and online engagement.

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My Newsweek Op-Ed: “Arab World Delusions Fuel BDS Campaign’s Coronavirus Conspiracies”

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on May 17, 2020 6 Comments

Regular readers may remember my two-part investigation of the anti-Israel movement's appropriation of coronavirus pandemic panic.

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“Essentially every single person I met along that trip is now unemployed”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2020 72 Comments

I was asked by Cornell media production people to appear in a video discussing the current coronavirus crisis. Now that was a shock. I'm not used to being promoted by Cornell. So I behaved myself, I didn't want them to regret it.

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Op-Ed: “Activists push idea that Israel’s behind the coronavirus pandemic”

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 24, 2020 3 Comments

Regular readers may remember my Thursday, April 9th research post, Investigation: How Anti-Israel Activists Are Hijacking The Coronavirus Crisis And Turning It Against Israel. Though the original post clocked in at close to 10,000 words, we managed to distill it down; the short version was published today in JNS. 

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Washington Times: “Meet the Cornell law professor who tracked Elizabeth Warren’s missteps”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2020 49 Comments

Elizabeth Warren has suspended her campaign for president. She's not going away, though, she's obviously maneuvering for something behind the scenes, hence her unwillingness to endorse either Bernie or Biden at this time. What does she want? It could be a V.P. slot, but Bernie or Biden would be out of their minds to do that.

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Impeachment: Republican Senators “recognize the trial … as an attempted political decapitation”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2020 29 Comments

My Cornell University theme song is Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams:

I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known, don't know where it goes, but it's home to me and I walk alone.

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Nothing will be gained by appeasing Democrats on impeachment witnesses

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2020 28 Comments

Consider me blessed. I was traveling and then attending to personal matters most of today, so I didn't get to watch the Senate impeachment trial proceedings. What did I miss? Adam Schiff and other Democrats scratching their nails on a blackboard?

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Elizabeth Warren hid her lucrative legal practice because it was “contrary to her political narrative”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2019 17 Comments

I appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on December 17, 2019, to talk about Elizabeth Warren's legal practice, while also a professor at Harvard Law School, in which she made almost $2 million. It's a topic I have discussed on Tucker's show before (here and here).

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