Analysis
Thursday, August 15th 2024
Paul Sperry Real Clear Investigations, June 19, 2024 “… his organization, which employs a full-time campus outreach coordinator, is under both federal and state investigation for ties to Hamas, and is also a defendant in a major new lawsuit brought by survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack.” Echoing the Muslim prophet Muhammad, […]
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Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn SPME, July 10, 2024 “Israelis are finding they are no longer welcome at many European universities, including participating in scientific collaborations. Their participation in cultural institutions and defense trade shows is increasingly becoming taboo.” Years of pro-Palestinian campaigning for a global boycott against Israel once found limited support. But in […]
Monday, July 29th 2024
Avital Indig Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Columbia was one of the first universities to see violent demonstrations, and as it happened, I had a front-row seat. Until then, I had never experienced anything like what I saw.” Shai Davidai is an Israeli-American social psychologist, senior lecturer at Columbia Business School and symbol of the […]
Wednesday, July 17th 2024
Michael Gross WSJ, July 11, 2024 “Passive and morally confused leaders have tacitly encouraged the threats of violence against Jewish students. By failing to oppose antisemitism from the outset, they’ve fostered the creation of a de facto no-go zone for Jews.” Will the antisemitism at Columbia University ever end? That was the question after […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, July 9th 2024
FOLLOW THE MONEY FIRST READING: U.S. Probes Provide Clues to Where Canada’s Anti-Israel Money Is Coming From: Tristin Hopper, National Post, June 5, 2024 — A series of U.S. probes into anti-Israel funding streams is providing early clues into the financing and organization underlying Canada’s own network of “pro-Palestinian” encampments, protests and blockades. Opinion: Court’s Dismissal of […]
Tuesday, July 9th 2024 / Tuesday, July 9th 2024
Jeffery Vacante, National Post, June 23, 2024 An anti-hate group recently attacked the leadership of McGill University for what it called its “weak-kneed response” to the protesters who have set up an encampment on its campus. Suggesting that “it is time for McGill to stand with its Jewish students who have been victimized for months […]
Thursday, June 20th 2024 / Thursday, June 20th 2024
David Blaff National Post, June 18, 2024 “Mehdi Hasan may have written a book called ‘Win Every Argument,’ but last night he got trounced while debating @DouglasKMurray and Natasha Hausdorff.” Douglas Murray and debate partner Natasha Hausdorff succeeded in persuading two-thirds of audience members at the Munk Debates on Monday night that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are the […]
Wednesday, June 19th 2024 / Wednesday, June 19th 2024
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 […]
Wednesday, June 19th 2024
Victor Davis Hanson Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 16, 2024 “… what makes it now so insidious is its new tripartite constituency.” What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the students at Stanford University vandalizing the president’s office really demonstrating against? What […]
Shabbos Kestenbaum Tablet, June 5, 2024 “… although the reports found that a Jewish student was spat on, an Israeli student was asked to leave class as her nationality made classmates “uncomfortable,” another Israeli was assaulted at the business school, a staff member taunted me with a machete and challenged me to debate the […]
Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, June 10, 2024 “The controversy at Columbia Law School continues a struggle by students, opposed by some authority figures on campus, to promote the anti-Zionist movement, despite its connections to terrorist organizations, white supremacist groups, and extremist far-left activists who have openly called for the destruction of Israel and the […]
Daniel Buck National Review, June 10, 2024 “While it’s tempting to wonder whether — even hope that — Columbia is an outlier, its school of education is not only influential; it’s emblematic.” The campus tantrum at Columbia University exposed for all to see the institution’s commitment to the fringe political philosophies of postcolonial theory […]
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