Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College

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. Salem on the Thames captures the events as they unfolded and

discusses topics such as Western sentiments concerning Israeli-Palestinian

relations, academics and free speech, antisemitism an...