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Leila Beckwith
Leila Beckwith Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA since 1979, Ph.D.in Psychology, University of Chicago. Board member of the American Jewish Congress. Board member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Chair chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East at UCLA. |
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Andrew G. Bostom
Andrew G. Bostom, M.D., M.S. is the author of the highly acclaimed The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims and his new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn Histor. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital , the major teaching affiliate of Brown University Medical School . Dr. Bostom has published numerous articles and commentaries on Islam in the The New York Daily News and many other publications. |
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Yaron Brook
Yaron Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and a contributing editor of The Objective Standard. A former finance professor, he has been published in academic as well as popular publications, and his opinion-editorials appear in major newspapers. He is frequently interviewed on national TV and radio. Dr. Brook lectures on Objectivism, business ethics and foreign policy at college campuses, community groups and corporations across America and throughout the world. |
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Sharon Browne
Sharon L. Browne is a principal attorney in Pacific Legal Foundation’s Individual Rights Practice group. She was named a California Lawyer of the Year in 2004 for her achievements in defending and implementing Proposition 209, the California Civil Rights Initiative. She co-authored the Faculty Rights Handbook with Adam Kissel.
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John Carroll
John Carroll Ph.D., is an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He has been an outspoken critic on the collapse of academic freedoms at universities throughout Australia. |
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Reut Cohen
graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. As a student, she ran a blog (reutrcohen.blogspot.com) to document the ‘anti-Israel,’ anti-Semitic and anti-American incidents at the university. Reut was a vocal student leader on a campus that has a history of being severely anti-Israel and anti-American. Reut has written for several publications, including CAMERA on Campus and FrontPageMagazine. |
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Marc Cogen
Marc Cogen Ph.D., is a full-time professor of international law at Ghent University, Belgium. Previously he taught at the Free University of Amsterdam and Vesalius College of the Free University of Brussels. He is co-founder and director of European Friends of Israel.
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Patrick Deneen
Patrick J. Deneen Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. In 2006 he founded The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy - an initiative that seeks to extend understanding of America’s founding principles and their roots in the Western philosophical and religious traditions. |
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Steve Emerson
Steve Emerson is the foremost expert on domestic terrorism inthe United States. As the Director of the Investigative Project he has appeared on countless television and radio programs inthe United States . He is the author of Jihad Inc. and the director and producer of several documentary films on domestic terrorism.
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Rachel Fish
Rachel Fish is a senior consultant to The David Project in Boston, MA. As a graduate student at Harvard University, she headed a successful effort to force the university to return an endowment donated to the Divinity School by the United Arab Emirates. She was also the producer of Columbia Unbecoming, a documentary which exposed intimidation of Columbia University constituents who offered pro-Israel perspectives. |
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Jonathan Gelbart
Jonathan Gelbart is a rising sophomore, majoring in International Relations at Stanford University. He is the president of Students for an Open Society, a member of the executive committee of the Stanford Conservative Society and writes extensively for the Stanford Review, an independent publication. Gelbart was also a research assistant for Daniel Pipes during his time as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution earlier this year.
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Debi Ghate
Debi Ghate is Vice President of Academic Programs at the Ayn Rand Institute. She has a B.Sc. in Psychology and Biology from the University of Toronto, and a LLB in Law from the University of Calgary. She oversees ARI's staff of in-house writers, manages its academic resource programs, administers its educational program (the Objectivist Academic Center), and acts as ARI's liaison with charitable foundations, university officials, academic and other scholars. |
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Larry
Greenfield
Larry Greenfield is the California Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition and a noted lecturer on American Foreign Policy. He has served in the Armed Forces of the United States in Naval Intelligence and earned his BA in political science from UC Berkeley and his Law Degree from Georgetown University. |
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Thor Halvorssen
Thor Halvorssen is a film producer and lifelong civil liberties advocate. He is president of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to protecting freedom in the Americas. He has produced several feature-length films including Indoctrinate U., the critically-acclaimed film about political correctness on America’s college campuses. |
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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson Ph.D., is the Senior Fellow in residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; a professor of classics emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007.
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Gail Heriot
Gail Heriot is a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a professor of law at the University of San Diego. Her work has appeared in such legal journals as the Harvard Journal of Legislation, the Michigan Law Review and the Virginia Law Review as well as in the popular press, including the Los Angeles Times, the National Review, and the Wall Street Journal. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars. |
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Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt is the host of a daily nationally syndicated talk radio show heard in more than 100 cities across the country. He is a Professor of Law at Chapman University Law School, the Executive Editor of Townhall.com and one of the country’s most widely read bloggers at www.HughHewitt.com
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David Horowitz
David Horowitz is President of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He has been an ardent critic of the use of the university as a center of indoctrination rather than education for twenty years. His two most recent books on this subject are The Professors (Regenery, 2007) and Indoctrination U:The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom (Encounter, 2007).
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David Jones
David Martin Jones Ph.D., teaches in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He has written on security and foreign relations for The National Interest, The American Interest and The World Today.
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Adam Kissel
Adam Kissel is Director of the Individual Rights Defense Program at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. His academic interests include the history and theory of liberal education, the history and theory of rhetoric, and rhetoric’s relationship with philosophy. He is the co-author of the Faculty Rights Handbook with Sharon Browne. |
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Morton A. Klein
Morton A. Klein is President of the Zionist Organization of America. He is considered one of the leading Jewish activists in the United States. The Forward, a national Jewish weekly, named him one of the top five Jewish leaders in America. He has published articles throughout the world including the Washington Post, New York Times , and the Jerusalem Post. Formerly, Mr. Klein was a senior economist during the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations, a biostatistician at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine and taught statistics at Temple University. |
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E. Christian Kopff
E. Christian Kopff is Associate Director of the Honors Program and Director of the Center for Western Civilization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His works include a critical edition of Euripides’ Bacchae and The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition (ISI Books, 2000) |
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Chris Kulawick
Chris Kulawick is the President Emeritus of the Columbia University College Republicans. Currently a first year law student at Harvard Law School, Chris has been featured on Hannity and Colmes, the O’Reilly Factor, NPR, and was profiled in New York Magazine. You can read his work online at www.chriskulawik.com. |
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John Leo
John Leo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the editor of MindingtheCampus.com, a website of the Institute’s Center for the American University. He has worked as a reporter for the New York Times, an editor for Time magazine, and a weekly columnist for U.S. News & World Report. |
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Brian Levin
Brian Levin Ph.D., is the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino where he teaches criminal justice and national security studies. He is the author, co-author or editor of books, articles and Supreme Court briefs on hate and extremism.
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Daniel Lowenstein
Daniel Lowenstein is a professor of law at UCLA. After serving as Deputy Secretary of State of California and then as the first chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, he joined the UCLA faculty, where he became the first American law professor to specialize in election law. He authored Election Law, the first textbook on that subject, whose fourth edition (with two co-authors) is currently in press. |
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Kenneth Marcus
Kenneth L. Marcus holds the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at CUNY’s Bernard M. Baruch College School of Public Affairs and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research. He served as Staff Director for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 2004-2008.
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Alexander McCobin
Alexander graduated in May, 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy. During college, Alexander founded Students For Liberty, a nonprofit organization that provides a unified, student-driven forum of support for all students and student organizations dedicated to liberty. |
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Jonathan Movroydis
Jonathan Movroydis is a recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a major in Political Science. He documented the problem of radical Islam at UC Irvine on his blog at Redcounty.com. His articles include first hand accounts, photographs, and video from one of America’s most controversial universities.
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Ed Morgan
Ed Morgan Ph.D., is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada. He teaches in international law, constitutional law, international criminal law, and the legal dimensions of the Middle East conflict. |
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Anne D. Neal
Anne Neal is President and co-founder of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. She has authored or co-authored numerous ACTA studies,contributed to the book Reforming the Politically Correct University (AEI Press, 2008), as well as convening higher education conferences under the auspices of the Philanthropy Roundtable. |
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Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes, Ph.D., is an academic and journalist and Director of the Middle East Forum whose writings on Islam, Europe and the threat to the West have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. His website is the single most accessed internet source of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. |
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Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager is one of America’s most respected radio talk show hosts. His popular daily show is syndicated nationally and airs live, Monday through Friday, from KRLA in Los Angeles. Widely sought by television for his opinions, he has appeared on Larry King Live, Hardball, Hannity & Colmes, among many other programs.
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Roberta Seid
Roberta P. Seid, PhD, specialized in European Social History
and taught Gender Studies at the University of Southern
California. She is a member of the America Israel Demographic
Research Group (AIDRG), which exposed the false myths
about Palestinian and Israeli demography, and she is the
Education/Research Director for StandWithUs, an education
and advocacy organization. Dr. Seid has published books
and articles in all these fields, and is currently teaching
the history of Israel at the University of California,
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Richard Sander
Richard Sander is an economist and Professor of Law at UCLA. He served as President of the Fair Housing Congress of Southern California and helped establish an intergovernmental task force that improved service delivery for low-income families. He is best known for his research on how affirmative action affects its intended beneficiaries. |
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Cinnamon Stillwell
Cinnamon Stillwell is the Northern California Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim towards their improvement. She is a columnist for SFGate.com, and a member of the Pajamas Media blogger network.
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Susan Tuchman
Susan Tuchman is an attorney and the director of the Zionist Organization of America’s Center for Law and Justice. In 2004 she originated the complaint filed by ZOA against the administration of the University of California at Irvine, alleging antisemitic
harrassment of Jewish students.
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Jonathan Willbanks
Jonathan Willbanks is a sophomore at the University of Southern California majoring in Business and Cinematic Arts. In high school, he founded two successful internet businesses generating over $250,000 in sales. He later served as State President of Oklahoma DECA, an association of business and marketing students. This year he served as founder and executive director of the Southern California Business Film Festival. |
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Peter Wood
Peter Wood is executive director of the National Association of Scholars. His writings include Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (Encounter Books, 2003) and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (Encounter Books, 2007).
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