Stern is also active in the effort to establish an interdisciplinary academic field of Hate Studies . He previously served on the director 's advisory board for the Gonzaga University Institute for Hate Studies , and he remains on the editorial board of the '' Journal of Hate Studies . '' In his article '' Holocaust education alone wo n't stop hate '' , Stern proposes ways to combat persisting hatred of Jews : In an open letter , coauthored with Cary Nelson , president of the American Association of University Professors , Stern wrote that some of the complaints about anti-Semitism on campus under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 " simply seek to silence anti-Israel discourse and speakers . This approach is not only unwarranted under Title VI , it is dangerous . " Stern 's letter was disavowed by AJC executive director David Harris , who called the letter " ill-advised . " In his book '' A Force upon the Plain : The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate , '' Stern links Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh with the Militia movement . In a review in '' Reason , '' Dave Kopel concludes that he " does not come remotely close to showing that militia members encouraged McVeigh to do anything illegal " , but uses circumstantial evidence , guilt by association and undocumented quotes that turn out to be false . Not only militias , but all critics of big government are excoriated in the book . After the 1994 elections , Stern found that " the vitriolic antifederal sentiments of some of these newly elected officials " differed " in detail but not in flavor " from the ideas of racist gangs . Kopel considers his use of charges of anti-Semitism and racism as a way of vilifying opponents and delegitimizing political stands he does not like
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