Analysis
Tuesday, December 12th 2023
Nial Ferguson The Free Press, Dec. 11, 2023 “But the reason Claudine Gay’s carefully phrased answers on Tuesday infuriated her critics is not that they were technically incorrect, but that they were so clearly at odds with her record—specifically her record as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the years 2018–2022, when […]
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Charles Lipson Real Clear Politics, Dec. 11, 2023 “They are the ones who demean all Israelis as “settler colonialists” who have no right to live there. They are the ones who call the generous donors of buildings, professorships, and student scholarships “exploitative capitalists,” hardly better than slave owners. And so on.” Chicken Little was […]
Melissa Korn, Rachel Louise Ensign and Douglas Belkin WSJ, Dec. 11, 2023 “The beginning of the end for Magill came this summer, when advertisements went out for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, billed as a celebration of Palestinian writers and artists and set to take place on Penn’s campus with backing from some Penn programs.” […]
Adam Andrzejewski Tablet, Dec. 10, 2023 “It seems these schools are more federal contractors than educators—with federal payments exceeding undergraduate student tuition.” In their congressional testimony last week, the presidents of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania refused to denounce terrorism or explain whether calls for the genocide of Jews represent […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, December 11th 2023
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Why University Presidents are Under Fire: Fareed Zakaria, CNN, Dec. 10, 2023 — When one thinks of America’s greatest strengths, the kind of assets the world looks at with admiration and envy, America’s elite universities would have long been at the top of that list. But the American public has been losing faith in these universities – and […]
Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023
Emily Jashinsky The Federalist, Dec. 7, 2023 “… if Ackman and Larry Summers and the many left-of-center voices who’ve rightfully expressed grave concerns since Oct. 7 are serious about solving the problem, they may need to take stock of their own values.” Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman weighed in on the question of campus antisemitism […]
Editorial Board Chicago Tribune Yahoo News, Dec. 7, 2023 “Even those sympathetic to the presidents Tuesday knew in their heart of hearts that these elite campuses had not protected free speech in recent years so much as safeguarded progressive speech that they liked for their own ideological reasons, often using “safety” as a cover.” On Tuesday, Elise […]
Heather MacDonald WSJ, Dec. 6, 2023 “The real issue on campuses isn’t antisemitism but the anti-Western ethos that has colonized large swaths of the curriculum.” Tuesday’s House hearing on campus antisemitism ratcheted up the pressure on American universities: counter the anti-Israel vitriol that exploded in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack or risk losing philanthropic […]
Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics, Dec. 8, 2023 “Huge numbers of students have entered universities, who would not have been admitted by the very standards universities until recently claimed were vital to ensure their own competitiveness and prestige. Consequently, they are no longer the guarantors of topflight undergraduates and professionals from their graduate programs.” […]
Friday, December 8th 2023 / Friday, December 8th 2023
Hanukkah as the Messy Middle: Elana Stein Hein, Times of Israel, Dec. 7, 2023 The Meaning of the Menorah: Seth Mandel, Commentary Magazine, Dec. 7, 2023 The Battle Cry of Hanukkah: Arynne Wexler, Tablet, Dec. 5, 2023 The Self-delusion of Secular Jews: David Mamet, Unherd, Dec. 7, 2023 _______________________________________________________ FOR FURTHER REFERENCE: Hanukkah Celebrations Are Being Cancelled Due to […]
Friday, December 8th 2023
Arynne Wexler Tablet, Dec. 5, 2023 “The story of the Maccabees is one of defiance and anti-assimilation. It’s about hard-as-nails Jews who fight for survival. It’s time we bring that back.” I hate Hanukkah. Wait, let me revise that. I hate what Hanukkah has become. A minor holiday in Israel, Hanukkah is often the one […]
Seth Mandel Commentary Magazine, Dec. 7, 2023 “No menorah lighting because Shirley Vermillion and her festival don’t want to give the impression that they support killing children—and having a Jewish ceremony would, in her eyes, do exactly that.” Nothing crystallizes the inseparability of Judaism from the state of Israel quite like efforts to ban […]
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