‘You Are in the Crosshairs’: Higher Ed Braces for Another Antisemitism Hearing

“We are witnessing a new strain of McCarthyism in the U.S. where instead of going after Hollywood, it is professors and higher education that are under attack,” said AAUP president Irene Mulvey. “Like the original McCarthyism, people’s lives are being upended, their careers are being ruined, and they are losing their livelihoods based on narratives being pushed to further a political agenda that have no basis in reality.”