Analysis
Thursday, February 15th 2024
Sheila Nazarian, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 12, 2024 “How is it possible that Nazi-style propaganda hangs in libraries and the administration refuses to intervene?” The congressional hearing at which the presidents of elite universities testified that calls for the genocide of Jews were dependent on context has become infamous. The list of grievances surrounding that notorious hearing is […]
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Thursday, February 15th 2024 / Thursday, February 15th 2024
Jonathan Barth Real Clear Education, Feb. 12, 2024 “… many faculty have their noses in the air, oblivious or unruffled by the reasons for their diminishing credibility.” University presidents have been in the limelight in recent months, more than at any other time in living memory. The additional scrutiny is amply warranted. They occupy powerful […]
Shai Davidai and Yardenne Greenspan Tablet, Feb. 13, 2024 “It took us a while to understand it, but once we did everything started making sense: Our friends did not have a problem with our politics, they had a problem with our identity.” Speaking up against Hamas’ crimes against humanity and against the student organizations that […]
Thursday, February 8th 2024
Lenny Ben-David Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Dec. 21, 2023 “What started in Doha is growing into a global campaign and students there are now looking to make connections to student activists in the United States.” Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser has emerged as one of the most influential people in Qatar. The […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, February 1st 2024 / Thursday, February 1st 2024
SINGLING OUT THE ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT WATCH: Victor Davis Hanson: An American’s Case for Israel | Robinson’s Podcast #191: Robinson Erhardt, YouTube, Jan. 22, 2024 — … In this episode, which is the second in an installment of three considering different perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Robinson and Victor discuss his appraisal of the situation as a military historian, some […]
Thursday, February 1st 2024
Ruth R. Wisse Commentary Magazine, February 2024 “Where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities.” Forgive me for quoting myself, but there’s no other way to begin: “History rarely issues us a red […]
Liel Leibovitz City Journal, Jan. 30, 2024 “As long as the DEI machinery continues to hum, it will offer preposterous courses, exclude groups it finds undesirable, excommunicate its foes, and expunge all but the beliefs it champions.” If you’ve ever watched a monster movie, you know the scene. The triumphant heroes walk away, the […]
Caroline Downey National Review, Jan. 31, 2024 “The previous selection process was conducted in record time,” Pollak said of Gay’s selection. “It appears, though, the important questions were not asked. This time around, we will be asking all the uncomfortable questions. Is this the most qualified candidate? Is this candidate’s publication record high quality enough?” […]
Thursday, February 1st 2024 / Wednesday, January 31st 2024
Tony Badran Tablet, Jan. 30, 2024 “American universities have made either an exceedingly clever or else exceedingly reprehensible bargain: quota-filling at a profit.” Five weeks after Rutgers University suspended the New Brunswick campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on Dec. 11 for violating several university policies, the school reversed its decision and reinstated […]
Friday, January 5th 2024 / Monday, January 8th 2024
SHABBAT READING Speech at ‘Closer to Israel’ at Trafalgar Square: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, June 2, 2013 –– In July 1938 leaders of 32 nations gathered in the French spa town of Evian knowing that something terrible was going to happen to the Jews, Knowing that unless they did something a tragedy would […]
Friday, January 5th 2024
Christopher F. Rufo WSJ, Jan. 3, 2023 “Throughout the campaign, I adopted the unorthodox approach of narrating the strategy in real time, explaining how conservatives could shape the media narrative and apply pressure to Harvard.” The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort […]
Bret Stephens NY Times, Jan. 2, 2024 “… dehumanization is the price any institution pays when considerations of social engineering supplant those of individual achievement.” I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like […]
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