Analysis
Monday, December 11th 2023 / Sunday, December 10th 2023
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 […]
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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.” […]
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Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Thursday, December 7th 2023
OUTRIGHT LIES University Presidents’ Abhorrent Hypocrisy on Anti-Jewish Speech: The Editors, National Review, Dec. 6, 2023 — All of a sudden, America’s elite universities have started to sound like John Stuart Mill. Asked yesterday by Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) whether students who call for “intifada” or shout “from the river to the sea” were acting “contrary to […]
Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Nov. 25, 2023 “The Brotherhood is a movement that sprang from universities and has always catalyzed campus radicalism.” After the jihadist barbarities of October 7, Israel responded with aerial bombardments of Hamas havens in Gaza, in preparation for the now-ongoing ground invasion. As the bombs fell, Hamas heavyweight Mousa Abu […]
Roger Kimball The Spectator, Nov. 14, 2023 ‘The real change, if it comes, will be the loss of widely shared social legitimacy that this revolution-by-major-donors may precipitate.” Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest form of murderous, antisemitic brutality. The world — […]
Penny Pance Washington Times, Nov. 28, 2023 “This antisemitic mindset apparently never left the halls of academia. In the U.S. today, racists are now running the universities, implementing diversity, equity and inclusion programs that have reinforced hate not based on inclusion but on anti-colonialism. These DEI officers blame Whites for colonizing the Americas, and they blame Israel for […]
Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Wednesday, December 6th 2023
Michael R. Bloomberg WSJ, Nov. 17, 2023 “Instead of issuing statements on selective issues, college presidents should adopt the policy the University of Chicago has stuck to since 1967, when it declared: “The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic.” The barbaric attack by Hamas against Israel—the […]
Thursday, November 30th 2023
William McGurn WSJ, Nov. 27, 2023 “… If colleges abandon their final cause, which is truth, their formal cause, which is civil discourse, soon breaks down into bullying, canceling, and extortion.” As Israel began exchanging Palestinian prisoners for Israeli moms and children, Harvard was dealing with its own ultimatum. A week ago pro-Palestinian students gave university […]
Tuesday, November 28th 2023
Etan Smallman Unherd, Nov. 9, 2023 “If the initial concerns of Jewish students — busily covering their skullcaps and Jewish-themed tattoos — were brushed off, it soon became clear that, if anything, they had underestimated the anti-Israeli atmosphere on campuses.” In my first year at university, in 2005, I vividly recall coming across a Guardian article by […]
Friday, November 17th 2023
Gad Saad National Post, Nov. 15, 2023 “The response of our leaders has been to always lump the astounding increase of Jew-hatred with Islamophobia. Apparently, the optimal way to combat Jew-hatred is to remind the populace that we must all redouble our collective efforts to eradicate Islamophobia.” I was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. […]
Jonathan Kay National Post, Nov. 14, 2023 “Antisemitism inevitably contaminates all radicalized political movements because it feeds into every fanatic’s belief that history’s “true” path has been deflected by some cabal of evildoers.” In September, it was reported that representatives from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) had petitioned the federal government, seeking $5-million in public funding. According to the […]
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