Analysis
Thursday, January 4th 2024
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, […]
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Isranet Daily Briefing
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 […]
Daniel Koren National Post, Dec. 13, 2023 “… when a student asked the university why — at a time of intense antisemitism — it was hosting an event with a speaker who also justified the indiscriminate murder of innocent Israeli civilians and tourists, McMaster’s response was that it was “committed to protecting” the speaker’s “expression.”” […]
Barbara Kay Toronto Sun, Dec. 21, 2023 “One of their specious dogmas insists that the only good Jew is the Jew who loathes Israel. Thus, leftist Jews scramble pathetically to please their ideological masters with precious burnt offerings like their dead grandmothers.” I hope, after I have shuffled off this mortal coil, that none […]
Andrew Phillips Toronto Sun, Dec. 15, 2023 “During the current conflict Muslim MPs, including Liberals, spoke out in favour of a ceasefire before the government shifted its position. And a group representing Muslim donors to the Liberal party, called Network 100, publicly withdrew its support because the government had not heeded those calls for a ceasefire.” […]
Students Speak
Thursday, December 21st 2023 / Thursday, December 21st 2023
Joshua Schecter On October 7, 2023, Shabbat, Simchat Torah, and precisely 50 years after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, Hamas launched a brutal and horrific terrorist attack against Israel. They murdered over 1200 Israeli civilians, maimed or injured over 4500, and abducted over 200 to the Gaza Strip, all in the most brutal […]
Monday, December 18th 2023
BEEN THERE BEFORE Opinion: This Unpalatable Reality About Antisemitism at Harvard: Lev Golinkin, CNN, Dec. 12, 2023 — Harvard University recently issued the latest in an ongoing string of attempts to underscore its commitment to combatting antisemitism, which has grown more evident in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. The Rabbi’s Lesson for Claudine Gay: Seth Mandel, Commentary Magazine, Dec. 14, 2023 — Much […]
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