#bill mullen

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Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly, Spring Break 1999

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L'Uomo Vogue March 2005

Photography by Richard Burbridge

Styled by Bill Mullen

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IDEAT, France, May 2016

Styling: Bill Mullen

Photography: Bettina Rheims

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Universities deteriorate from the top on down, by Mitchell Bard

If faculty adhered to these guidelines, we would not have many of the problems that have created a noxious atmosphere for Jews. Unfortunately, the AAUP opposes oversight by donors, board members, community members, watchdog organizations, students or governments. The entire concept of academic freedom is a creation of faculty (the AAUP and the Association of American Colleges and Universities) not of any of the other stakeholders and it has been set up so that only faculty foxes can guard the campus henhouse.

The Mullen article is an example of why they can’t be trusted.

Mullen, a professor of American Studies at Purdue, writes about the “Palestinian exception to free speech,” which he says is the “ongoing curtailment of Palestinians’ ability to ‘speak for themselves’ owing to long-standing Zionist and U.S. state support for Israel.” By “Zionist,” of course, he means Jews. And apparently, he sees no contradiction in reporting in the previous paragraph that sessions at “Palestine Writes” Literature Festival that included endorsing the boycott of Israel and featured anti-Israel Palestinian speakers (my characterization, not his) were broadcast on Zoom.

According to the anti-Semitic BDS movement, “Statements in support of Palestinian rights, many advocating for BDS, have been endorsed by more than 350 academic departments, programs, centers, unions and societies and garnered nearly 24,000 signatures from scholars, researchers, students and university staff worldwide.” The “exception” would also be news to anyone on the dozens of campuses where Students for Justice in Palestine and their supporters are propagandizing every day.

Mullen contradicts himself again in the next paragraph when he writes that academics have won the “right … to speak for Palestinian liberation in both the classroom and the public sphere.” The real exception is that these professors are allowed to use their positions to promote their personal agendas and teach the political equivalent of 2+2=5.

Mullen is also upset that the Department of Education has applied Title VI protections against discrimination against Jews and suggested that determinations of a violation of their rights be guided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. Like others who want to denude anti-Semitism of its meaning, Mullen falsely claims the IHRA considers criticism of Israel anti-Semitic.

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photographer: Greg Kadel stylist: Bill Mullen MODEL(S): Fu'ad Ait Aattou; Louis Prades

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Hannah Elyse, Nya Gatbel & Dipti Sharma, photographed by Matthew Brookes and styled by Bill Mullen for Mixte Magazine N°25 Spring Summer 2020