Analysis
Tuesday, June 4th 2024
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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