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Tuesday, July 12th 2022
THE ANTISEMITISM LURKING BEHIND BDS Boston BDS Map of Jewish Groups Has ‘Potential to Incite Violence,’ Auchincloss Says: Marc Rod, Jewish Insider, June 9, 2022 — Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said on Wednesday that a report released last week by a Boston-area Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement group plays on millennia-old antisemitic tropes and could inflame violence […]
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Tuesday, July 12th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
Joseph Manson Common Sense with Bari Weiss, July 7, 2022 “… one colleague told a meeting of the biological anthropology subfield that he regarded the GRE as the most informative part of an applicant’s dossier, but that we had no choice but to vote to stop requiring it.” Defenestration of a Colleague I’ve been a […]
George F. Will Washington Post, July 8, 2022 “Bauerlein is telling the origin story of today’s cohort of aggressively illiberal, censorious young adults: “The fractious, know-nothing thirty-year-old is what we got when we let the twelve-year-old drop his books and take up the screen.” Time was, conscientious parents fretted about “summer learning loss.” Now, when […]
Bari Weiss Common Sense with Bari Weiss, July 10, 2022 “You have all sat in classrooms, posted on social media, and applied to college and felt the pressure at each stage to promote an ideology you disagree with.” Before I begin, I must recognize that we are currently sitting on the ancestral home of the […]
Auguste Meyrat The Federalist, June 7, 2022 “If any teacher dares to give them anything less than 100 percent for their final average, they will complain that they have mastered the standards of the class and are entitled to a perfect grade.” According to a report in West Cook News, administrators at Oak Park and River Forest […]
Monday, July 11th 2022
WHAT DO THE STUDENTS SAY? As a Jewish Student in Ottawa, I Experienced Antisemitism First-hand: Ronnie Frenkel, Ottawa Citizen, July 9, 2022 — A recent Ottawa Citizen article explored how Jewish parents are worried about the rise of antisemitism in schools, but missed an important voice: Jewish students themselves. This is my experience, as a recent graduate […]
Monday, July 11th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
J.J. Kimche and Angelique Talmor City Journal, July 6, 2022 “That Harvard students are absorbing and endorsing BDS attitudes raises central questions about their educational experience.” Harvard University provides its students with unparalleled knowledge, skills, and experiences. Yet, as we Jewish students have witnessed, the routine vilification of the State of Israel—both inside and outside […]
Janice Arnold Canadian Jewish News, July 5, 2022 “… BDS activism and contentious campus debate” around the Middle East conflict; increased online “harassment, vitriolic social media posting and doxing” A McGill University administration investigation cites the “polarizing” debate around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, as causing both Jewish […]
Marc Edelman NY Post, May 30, 2022 “As the only law school funded with New York City taxpayer dollars, moreover, CUNY Law has an ethical duty to build an environment that makes Jewish and Israeli students, like all other students, feel welcome on campus.” The time has come for New York City to take a […]
Mike Wagenheim World Israel News, July 3, 2022 ‘It’s horrible to be a Jew at CUNY’ The New York City Council postponed an early June hearing on antisemitism on college campuses to accommodate the schedule of the chancellor of the City University of New York. At the rescheduled hearing on Thursday, Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez […]
Friday, July 8th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
David I. Kertzer The Atlantic, Aug. 27, 2020 “It would only be after Pius XII’s death that Church attitudes toward the Jews would change in a meaningful way, thanks to his successor John XXIII, who convened a Vatican Council devoted in part to rooting out the vestiges of medieval Church doctrine on the Jews.” In […]
Mario Galgano Vatican News, Feb. 2022 “… there are still people who say that they cannot imagine that, for 70 years we have believed what was wrong, and now it is supposed to be different. I encounter this skepticism often, both inside and outside the Church.” The chief archivist of the Bundestag (German parliament), Michael Feldkamp, has […]
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