Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The Los Angeles Review of Books spiked an interview it commissioned with Shai Davidai — the Israel-born professor who called out antisemitism on Columbia University’s campus — with an editor calling the outspoken academic “a toxic figure,” The Post has learned.
asserted
Post → spike → academic
Senior editor Rob Latham pulled the rug out from under freelancer Melissa Uchiyama after hiring her to interview Davidai ahead of his new book, “American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities,” emails showed.
asserted
emails → pull → Universities
He had a stunning change of heart after reading the 2,000-word piece, telling Uchiyama in an email that Davidai is “a toxic figure who pretends to want respectful exchange.”
The prof is a “controversial figure” whose views “need to be probed more rigorously” than a standard interview allows, Latham wrote Uchiyama in emails seen by The Post.
asserted
Latham → have → Post
Latham “should never have green lit the piece at all,” he added.
asserted
he → light → piece
When Uchiyama offered to rework the article to salvage publication, the LA Review — which recently ran a fawning piece on controversial anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil – told her, no dice.
asserted
which → offer → dice
Latham wrote the dismayed scribe that her “best bet is to try and find a sympathetic venue” and offered her a $100 kill fee, which she declined.
“There was simply no way to have a quiet chat with him, and if you had challenged him forcefully, I expect it would’ve gotten ugly very fast,” Latham wrote.
asserted
Latham → write → him
Davidai said the spiking of the article looked like bitter proof of the kind of censorship he’s been fighting.
asserted
he → say → censorship
“Ironically, part of the book concerns these exact distortions and erasures in the media,” he told The Post.
asserted
he → concern → Post
“What’s most shocking is that they’re saying the quiet parts out loud,” he added, blasting “the double standard” at work.
asserted
he → ’ → work
“It was clear to me it wasn’t about her not asking the right questions, but about her asking the wrong person.”
asserted
her → ask → person
Davidai’s new book, set for release Oct. 6, is a “blistering indictment of how radical politics, ideological indoctrination, and institutional indifference have transformed campuses into incubators of anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American hatred,” according to publisher Wicked Son, an imprint of Post Hill Press, which is in turn distributed by Simon & Schuster.
uncertain
which → set → Simon
Uchiyama told The Post she was “very proud” of her “balanced” interview with Davidai.
asserted
she → tell → Davidai
“I knew my audience and their skepticism — it was not written for a Jewish outlet,” she said.
asserted
she → know → outlet
The spiked interview is the latest in a series of travails for Davidai, who made international headlines for standing up to anti-Israel protests at Columbia in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
asserted
who → make → attacks
Start your day with all you need to know
Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.
asserted
Report → start → news
The human behavior researcher went from celebrated staffer – who was regularly published in journals and mainstream outlets and collected awards like “best 40 under 40 MBA professors of 2023” – to being barred from the classroom and campus.
asserted
who → go → classroom
He finally left the poison Ivy last year after spurious charges against him were ultimately dropped.
asserted
charges → leave → him
The New York-based academic went on to join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy as a research fellow.
asserted
academic → base → fellow
LARB and Latham did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
asserted
LARB → respond → comment
The Aporia
