Analysis
Friday, January 5th 2024
Jonathan Tobin National Post, Jan. 3, 2023 “The reason why Gay was so vulnerable to criticism wasn’t just the testimony but the fact that her career embodied everything that is wrong about an ideology helping to fuel the surge in antisemitism in the United States.” In the end, not even the support of former U.S. […]
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Joe Concha The Messenger, Jan. 4, 2024 “instead of accepting responsibility, Gay made her exit about the color of her skin.” MSNBC’s Joy Reid views the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, as a case of racism and sexism. “There is this sort of open war on Black progress, Black history,” Reid said, and Gay “is now the […]
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Thursday, January 4th 2024
EMPTY HONOUR Dissent: For Harvard’s Sake, It’s Time to Let Gay Go: Brooks B. Anderson and Joshua A. Kaplan, The Harvard Crimson, Dec. 31, 2023 — University President Claudine Gay should resign. It has been less than half a year since Gay assumed one of the most prestigious posts in all of academia. Since then, scandal after […]
Melissa Korn WSJ, Jan. 3, 2024 “The most important thing that they can do right now is say everything. As many updates as they can provide, as much as they can tell the community, as much as they can openly and in real time share, the better off Harvard will be in the long […]
Peter W. Wood The Spectator, Jan. 3, 2023 “Why is it in the best interests of Harvard to unload a dishonest, serial plagiarist, whose record of scholarship would embarrass a cooked lobster?” In the end Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, 700-some members of the faculty, the mighty voice of the Harvard Crimson and the entire nomenclature […]
Eli Steele Newsweek, Jan. 3, 2024 “How desperate were we for racial innocence? So desperate that we betrayed the American principles that enabled countless blacks to reach a place in life that was an improvement upon the world they were born into!” After weeks of speculation about whether Harvard University’s president, Claudine Gay, […]
Friday, December 29th 2023
SHABBAT READING Where Was Jacob Buried?: Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com. Dec. 26, 2023 — The Machpelah Cave near Hebron is known to be the burial place of the patriarchs and matriarchs, including Jacob. Indeed, after Jacob blesses his twelve sons (Gen 49:1–28), he instructs them to bury him in the cave: בראשית מט:כט וַיְצַ֣ו […]
Chad Qian The Tech, Dec. 14, 2023 “… to the extent that any students have been intimidated by rhetoric on campus to a sufficient degree such that, e.g., they are legitimately fearful to venture to classes, and this rhetoric has been “severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive,” then clearly this line would have been crossed.” […]
Avi Balsam The Tech, Nov. 1, 2023 “… in the words of MIT’s 18th president, there exists a “clear distinction between what we can say … and what we should say.” When students on campus call for attacks against Jews, MIT’s administration has a moral responsibility to state unequivocally that it does not support, and in fact […]
MIT Israel Alliance MIT Faculty Newspaper, November/December 2023vol. Xxxvi No. 2 “It is not just students who are bullying and ostracizing Jews and Israelis on campus. At a public campus event, the MIT Interfaith Chaplain reportedly diverted the group discussion four times to assert that Palestinians are “wrongfully subjugated and oppressed by racist white […]
Friday, December 29th 2023 / Friday, December 29th 2023
Testimony Jenna Russell NY Times, Dec. 13, 2023 “We are alarmed to observe M.I.T. earning a national reputation for antisemitism on President Kornbluth’s watch, rather than for academic excellence.” While governing boards at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania weighed their presidents’ fates in tense closed-door meetings this month, the board at the […]
Friday, December 22nd 2023
HAMAS THANKS CANADA Hamas Thank-You the Latest Shame for Trudeau Government Since Oct. 7: Warren Kinsella, Toronto Sun, Dec. 21, 2023. Includes Hamas video. — Where were you, mom and dad, on the day that Hamas thanked the Trudeau government? Agreed: The day that the world’s most notorious terror group offered up video thanks to the Justin […]
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