FIGHTING BACK
Podcast: Ruth Wisse on the Explosion of Anti-Israel Protests on Campus: Mosaic, May 3, 2024 — Anti-Israel campus activism has never been more popular or unpleasant than it is right now. In years past, much of this activism was mixed up with nods to the desire for peace and a two-state solution that would allow for Palestinians to enjoy their own sovereignty alongside a secure Israel.
Open Letter Against the Boycott of Israeli Universities: Maarten Boudry, Quillette, June 10, 2024 — Universities across the world are facing pressure—from students but also from academic staff—to cut ties with Israeli institutions over the war in Gaza.
Goodbye, Columbia: Mark Charendoff, EJewishPhilanthropy, Jan. 8, 2024 — If there were any lingering doubts about the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of American academia, the Dec. 5 congressional testimonies from the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania laid them to rest.
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We Should Worry About What Columbia Is Teaching Teachers, Too: Daniel Buck, National Review, June 10, 2024
Columbia Law Review Declares Strike After Breaking Rules to Publish Anti-Zionist Article: Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, June 10, 2024
Harvard’s Golden Age Turns to Mud: Shabbos Kestenbaum, Tablet, June 5, 2024
The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism: Victor Davis Hanson, Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 16, 2024
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‘Somebody Is Radicalizing Our Students’: NYPD Finds Weapons, ‘Death to America’ Poster in Pro-Hamas Encampment: Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, May 3, 2024 — Anti-Israel protesters who occupied an academic building at Columbia University had signs that read “death to America” and “death to Israel,” a New York City Police Department (NYPD) official said on Friday.
Root-Causism: Susie Linfield, Sapir, Mar. 18, 2024 — Immediately after news of Hamas’s October 7 massacres broke — before it was known just what had happened, before the shock of the cruelty had been absorbed (which will, perhaps, never happen) — instant, and astonishingly confident, analyses of the event’s “root cause” emerged.
Who Are the Anti-Israel Campus Protesters?: Zach Kessel, National Review, May 16, 2024— The first thing anyone walking the perimeter of the erstwhile Columbia University “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” could see was a sign — “WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE’S UNIVERSITY FOR PALESTINE” — that hung on the fence surrounding the school’s South Lawn.
The Coddling of the American Undergraduate: Rita Koganson, Chronicle, Mar. 21, 2024 — When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set his alarm.