Analysis
Monday, March 17th 2025 / Sunday, March 16th 2025
Michael Starr Jerusalem Post, Mar. 9, 2025 “The Toronto Police Service will continue to be a strong partner in the fight against antisemitism and all hate crimes.” The Canadian government convened a national forum on combating antisemitism in Ottawa on Thursday, according to Public Safety Canada, amid rising anti-Jewish incidents in the country. Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and […]
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David Rose Unherd, Mar. 16, 2025 “As so often, the BBC stuck to its guns, claiming its usage was “true to the speaker’s intentions.” Earlier this week, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wrote to BBC Director-General Tim Davie demanding “wholesale reform” of the corporation’s Arabic service, saying it provided a “platform for terrorists” and promulgated “appalling antisemitism” and […]
Wednesday, March 12th 2025 / Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Elder of Zyon, Mar. 10, 2025 When you read the relevant US codes, the case to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unassailable. U.S. immigration agents arrested Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student who acted as a leader of the Columbia University group that led pro-Hamas protests. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Khalil was […]
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Andrew Silow-Carroll/JTA Jerusalem Post, Mar. 11, 2025 “While conceding that Khalil deserves “due process protections,” the Anti-Defamation League was fast out of the gate with a statement saying that they “hope that his action serves as a deterrent to others who might consider breaking the law on college campuses.” The campus pro-Palestinian protests that erupted […]
Wednesday, March 12th 2025 / Tuesday, March 11th 2025
Erez Linn Israel Hayom, Mar. 11, 2025 “Mahmoud Khalil, like every other ICE detainee, should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.” Columbia University professor Shai Davidai, a vocal advocate for Israel and critic of campus pro-Palestinian activism, surprisingly came out with reservations about the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a reported leader of Columbia’s Boycott, […]
Douglas Belkin, Tarini Parti and Alyssa Lukpet WSJ, Mar. 10, 2025 “Citing national security does not give the Trump administration a blank check to violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.” Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was the first to be arrested by Homeland Security agents for his participation in pro-Palestininan demonstrations on campus, but President Trump vowed he […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Mar. 10, 2025 “,,, the side in this dispute that seeks to violate free speech and academic freedom were those in the pro-Hamas mobs, egged on by administrations that coddled and enabled them, who were violating the rights of Jewish students and faculty.” At a time when partisanship influences virtually every […]
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Monday, March 10th 2025
‘Columbia Should Be More Worried than I Am,’ Many Thinking of Transferring, Jewish Student Says: Vita Fellig, JNS, Mar. 6, 2025 — As Barnard College sought to de-escalate a protest on Wednesday afternoon, in which dozens of anti-Israel demonstrators—many wearing keffiyehs—stormed its library, the school received a specific bomb threat targeting the Milstein Center for Teaching and […]
Nathan Diament Deseret News, Mar. 5, 2025 “A new poll conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows American Jews — a longstanding pillar of the Democratic Party — have more confidence in how Republicans are responding to the antisemitism crisis.” If there’s one takeaway from the 1-month-old Trump administration, it’s this: President Donald Trump and his […]
Dion J. Pierre Algemeiner, Feb. 4, 2025 “Columbia University remains one of the most hostile campuses for Jews employed by or enrolled in an institution of higher education.” Nearly 200 Columbia University faculty have signed an open letter urging administrative officials to at last enact policies which address the scourge of antisemitism and disruption on the […]
Jessica Blake Inside Higher Education, Feb. 4, 2025 “This bipartisan bill holds universities accountable to address discrimination and maintain a safe learning environment for all students.” Nearly a week after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at combating campus antisemitism, the Education Department opened civil rights investigations into five colleges “where widespread antisemitic harassment […]
Monday, March 3rd 2025 / Monday, March 3rd 2025
Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia: Deborah Lipstadt, The Free Press, Mar. 2, 2025 How America’s Jews Became America’s ‘New Blacks’: David Christopher Kaufman, Commentary Magazine, March 2025 Qatar’s Grip on Education Is Causing an Explosion of Campus Antisemitism: Amine Ayoub, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2025 A Vile Equivalence: Melanie Phillips, JNS, Feb. 28, 2025 *** For Further Reference Federal […]
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