Analysis
Tuesday, June 4th 2024 / Tuesday, June 4th 2024
Charlie Covit WSJ, May 16, 2024 “Support for Mr. Tettey-Tamaklo belies the protesters’ denials of antisemitism.” Harvard’s anti-Israel protesters created a martyr this past school year. “Reinstate Elom to his proctor position,” read a list of demands first published in November and posted across campus for the rest of the year. “Over 4,000 people have […]
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Tuesday, June 4th 2024
Douglas Belkin WSJ, May 16, 2024 “The report paints a picture of an overwhelmed and indecisive administration, which failed to apply university rules to protesters engaged in antisemitic behavior.” Harvard University was slow to react to a wave of hostility against Jewish students last fall and ignored recommendations from an advisory group it created to address rising […]
Jessica McCann, The Harvard Gazette, May 28, 2024 “… we now live in a world of extreme political polarization. And that means both that people tend to react to University statements (again, intact or distorted) in a polarized way, and also put pressure on the University to speak or not speak in polarized ways.” In […]
Gil Hoffman Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2024 “Steven Thrasher, whose title at Medill is “chair of social justice in reporting,” shockingly told students at the encampment that “our work is not about objectivity.” When I graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism a quarter century ago, the dean and professors made me feel proud to be […]
Friday, May 17th 2024
Jay Solomon Semafor, May 9, 2024 “Many of Mousavian’s dictums on the nuclear file would be adopted by the Iranian government after his close political ally, Hassan Rouhani, succeeded Ahmadinejad as president in 2013 and moved to negotiate directly with the Obama administration over the next two years.” As US-Iran relations thawed during the Obama administration, […]
Tuesday, May 7th 2024 / Sunday, May 5th 2024
Robert Williams Gatestone Institute, Dec. 7, 2023 “Hmm. It sounds as if NSJP has exactly the same goals as Hamas: the eradication of Israel and all its Jewish inhabitants. A coincidence? Not quite.” Many pro-Hamas demonstrations that have been taking place on US campuses since Hamas launched its war on Israel on October 7, when […]
Monday, May 6th 2024
Steven Stalinsky WSJ, Apr. 22, 2024 “Mr. Nasrallah had already cited the effect of protests “in Washington, New York, London, Paris and Western Europe” in a Nov. 11 speech, lauding their power to “apply pressure on their governments.” Protests against Israel expanded on college campuses last week, sometimes turning violent. At Columbia University, demonstrators chanted support […]
Urja Sinha, Jeff Arnold and Devan Markham Newsnation, May 1, 2024 “There is a movement to radicalize young people. And I’m not going to wait until it is done to acknowledge the existence of it,” Adams said.” Columbia University and several other universities across the United States are continuing to warn of potential outside agitators […]
Francesca Block The Free Press, Nov. 14, 2023 “In 1974, the FBI investigated Singham as “potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instabilities or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to the U.S.,” according to its report, which he published on a blog.” The pro-Palestinian protests over the last month, where tens of thousands in […]
Susan Ferrechio The Washington Times, May 1, 2024 “The group defines itself on social media as a coalition of more than 100 student organizations “fighting for a liberated Palestine and the end of Columbia’s complicity in genocide.” Most of the organizations providing the backbone of campus protests against Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip are supporters of […]
Sunday, May 5th 2024
By Moshe Phillips (Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.) This year’s Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, starting on the evening of May 12, will be unlike any in the Jewish State’s history as it is the first since October 7th. One of […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, May 2nd 2024
IN THEIR OWN WORDS Columbia University Apartheid Divest: Who We Are: Heather Chen, Columbia Spectator, Nov. 14, 2023 — Columbia University Apartheid Divest is a coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation. We are a continuation of the Vietnam anti-war movement and the movement to divest from apartheid […]
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