Analysis
Monday, September 9th 2024
Asaf Romirowsky The Hill, Aug. 30, 2024 “Plainly put, Columbia did nothing to stop the riots in the first place. And once the rioters had been arrested and charged, it was quick to let them off with a just slap on the wrist.” It’s late August. For those of us in higher education, this means […]
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Andrew Bostom Gatestone Institute, Sept. 6, 2024 “The study authors concluded that although “a climate of universal anti-Jewish hatred” did not exist, Jewish student concerns about antisemitism were justified, and “driven by about a third of students who held distinct patterns of beliefs about Jews and Israel.”” The carnage of October 7, 2023 in southern Israel was […]
Eli Lake The Free Press, Sept. 7, 2024 “What leads a person to put down their placard and pick up a gun?” Last year, American universities exploded with protests over a war half a world away in Gaza. In solidarity with the perpetrators of October 7, keffiyeh-clad students covered campus grounds with “encampments,” took over […]
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Tuesday, August 20th 2024
NO SURPRISE Columbia University Restores Dozens of Pro-Hamas Rioters to Good Standing, New Report Says: Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, Aug. 19, 2024 — Columbia University punished very few of the students who were involved in occupying an administrative building and staging a riot which prompted the university, fearing an outbreak of racial violence, to revoke a Jewish professor’s […]
Adam Kirsch WSJ, Aug. 16, 2024 “For the academic discipline of settler colonial studies, the goal of learning about settler colonialism in America and elsewhere is not simply to understand it, as a historian would, but to dismantle it.” This week Minouche Shafik resigned as president of Columbia University, the latest Ivy League leader to become a […]
Tuesday, August 20th 2024 / Tuesday, August 20th 2024
Martin Kramer Martin Kramer on the Middle East, Aug. 15, 2024 ” How did Columbia go from “two Palestinians” to a “unique concentration” in just seven years?” The resignation of Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, is being hailed as a victory all around. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who had called for her resignation back in April, celebrated the […]
Liel Leibovitz City Journal, Aug. 16, 2024 “These twin statements, Armstrong’s and Shafik’s, tell the story of Columbia’s decline better than any in-depth analysis ever could.” Earlier this week, Minouche Shafik, Columbia University’s president, unexpectedly resigned her post. You would think that the departure of an Ivy League leader less than three weeks before the start of […]
Tovia Smith NPR, Aug. 12, 2024 “I could not care less about students busting up some windows when they’re getting degrees revoked for protesting the killing of human beings!” To many pro-Palestinian campus activists, it was a crushing coincidence of the calendar. Just as nationwide protests over the Israel-Hamas war were coming to a crescendo, […]
Samuel M. Edelman Times of Israel, Aug. 19, 2024 “At the heart of this effort are nine lies accepted without question by a small yet vocal group of students and professors on campuses, in high schools, and even middle schools.” What is at the core of the massive antisemitism we have seen happening […]
Thursday, August 15th 2024
‘So Unimaginable and So Abhorrent’: Federal Judge Orders UCLA to Stop Aiding Activists Enforcing Jew-Free Zones on Campus: Zach Kessel, National Review, Aug. 14, 2024 The AAUP Abandons Academic Freedom: Cary Nelson, SPME, Aug. 13, 2024 The Boycott Against Israel Is Spreading into New Corners of Society: Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn, SPME, July 10, 2024 War College: How […]
Zach Kessel National Review, Aug. 14, 2024 “Shame on UCLA for letting antisemitic thugs terrorize Jews on campus. Today’s ruling says that UCLA’s policy of helping antisemitic activists target Jews is not just morally wrong but a gross constitutional violation. UCLA should stop fighting the Constitution and start protecting Jews on campus.” A Los […]
Cary Nelson SPME, Aug. 13, 2024 “It would be perhaps the first time in history that reflective philosopher kings alone have organized mass action.” Last week, the American Association of University Professors set aside its hundred-year defence of academic freedom by opening the door to any number of individually initiated academic boycotts. Individual students and […]
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