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

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: April 07, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1644690993
• | ISBN-13: 9781644690994