Analysis
Monday, May 6th 2024
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Jonathan Chait New York Magazine, Apr. 22, 2024 “ … the groups themselves are very clearly not advocating for “peace.” They are for war. Their objection is not to human suffering but that the wrong humans are suffering.” The anti-Israel demonstrations around Columbia University turned threatening and antisemitic Saturday night, as they have repeatedly across the country. […]
Miriam Abrams Sapir Journal, Oct. 2023 – Feb. 2024 “I know these people. I go to class with them. The same intersectional feminists who claim to oppose misogyny in all its forms are supporting the mass rape and brutalization of Jewish women. They’d never be caught dead victim-blaming — except when it comes to brutally violated Jewish […]
Rachel Fish Sapir Journal, Vol. Five Spring 2022 “As the university became ever more focused on identity issues as part of postmodern, post-colonial developments, Jewish faculty steered clear of conversations about Jewish identity or engagement.” Elite universities are sites of seduction. Grassy quads, the vaulted architecture of stone and brick, the library with its oak […]
Ari Allyn-Feuer Fathom Journal, May 2024 “The main leader of the encampment personally believes that ‘Zionists do not deserve to live,’ and has repeatedly engaged in public threats of violence against ‘Zionists,’ including at a university disciplinary hearing.” If Columbia in fact calls in law enforcement to its campus, and they in fact clear out the Palestine […]
Wednesday, May 1st 2024 / Wednesday, May 1st 2024
WORLD’S PROBLEM WATCH: The Columbia Protests and the Scourge of Elite anti-Semitism: Spiked, Apr. 26, 2024 — GB News’ Charlie Peters joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the ‘Gaza solidarity’ encampments springing up on US campuses, the collapse of the SNP-Green coalition agreement and whether cancel culture is ruining […]
Wednesday, May 1st 2024
Howard Levitt Gatestone Institute, Apr. 23, 2024 “Specifically, I’d like to hear from someone who wants a ceasefire/is finding it hard to be pro-Israel right now OR someone who supports the war despite the high cost of civilian life — and how their personal lived experiences inform those views.” Over the last several years, […]
Kat Rosenfield Unherd, Apr. 26, 2024 “You can see what animates them in this moment, and it isn’t the cause.” This week, amid widespread US campus protests against the war in Gaza, a video emerged of a confrontation on the Columbia quad. A slender young black man in a keffiyeh and a pair of florid pink […]
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