Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College (Antisemitism in America)

In the Spring of 2015, student activists stampeded 200 professors at Connecticut College into publicly shaming one of their colleagues in the name of fighting hate speech. The Pessin affair offers a case study of a "staged moral emergency," a new and spreading phenomenon in our society, so prone to media-driven feeding frenzies.

• | Author: Richard Landes
• | Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• | Publication Date: March 31, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1644690985
• | ISBN-13: 9781644690987