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Tuesday, June 4th 2024
ALONE The Soil Beneath the Encampments: How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard: The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance (HJAA), May 2024 – Through conversations with 42 Jewish students, we learned that they had been systematically targeted and excluded not only by other students but also within classrooms and by professors. Every […]
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Tuesday, June 4th 2024 / Tuesday, June 4th 2024
Charlie Covit WSJ, May 16, 2024 “Support for Mr. Tettey-Tamaklo belies the protesters’ denials of antisemitism.” Harvard’s anti-Israel protesters created a martyr this past school year. “Reinstate Elom to his proctor position,” read a list of demands first published in November and posted across campus for the rest of the year. “Over 4,000 people have […]
Douglas Belkin WSJ, May 16, 2024 “The report paints a picture of an overwhelmed and indecisive administration, which failed to apply university rules to protesters engaged in antisemitic behavior.” Harvard University was slow to react to a wave of hostility against Jewish students last fall and ignored recommendations from an advisory group it created to address rising […]
Jessica McCann, The Harvard Gazette, May 28, 2024 “… we now live in a world of extreme political polarization. And that means both that people tend to react to University statements (again, intact or distorted) in a polarized way, and also put pressure on the University to speak or not speak in polarized ways.” In […]
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 […]
Monday, May 27th 2024
Abe Greenwald Commentary Magazine, June 2024 “The union of radical leftism and jihadism on display across American campuses is a marriage born of necessity—and of love.” In April, a long-haired flower child on the campus of Princeton University was captured on camera. The picture, posted on social media, shows him sitting on his guitar […]
Einat Wilf Sapir Journal, Vol. 12, Winter 2024 “The words were inverted to keep the war alive, deprive the Jewish state of legitimacy, and maintain a constant question mark over the Jewish state’s very existence.” Adi Schwartz and I had just exited another frustrating meeting with a smug European diplomat. Turning to an […]
Thursday, May 16th 2024
Mary Herrington UnHerd, May 15, 2024 “It’s hardly original to notice the Puritan streak in modern progressivism.” Why is Greta Thunberg wearing a keffiyeh? The Swedish activist is the poster-girl for climate change. The keffiyeh, though, symbolises a wholly different cause: solidarity with Palestinians in the current conflict with Israel. What does that have to do […]
Wednesday, May 8th 2024
Tony Keller, Globe and Mail, May 6, 2024 On Sunday night, I took a walk around the self-proclaimed “People’s Circle for Palestine.” King’s College Circle, at the centre of the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, was a hive of activity. The administration fenced off the area in a bid to prevent it becoming an […]
Michael Higgins National Post, May 7, 2024 “They have undercover Hamas members to report about anyone who criticizes Hamas or speaks against them. You don’t know if you are talking to a Hamas guy or not. You start talking against Hamas and you find yourself arrested the next day,” said Howidy.” Hamza Howidy has […]
National Post view National Post, Apr. 6, 2024 “No one should be under any illusion that these tactics and protests are a spontaneous outpouring of support for Gazans. These demonstrations are well-planned, orchestrated by organizations with an anti-Israel and antisemitic bias, and lead by terrorist sympathizers.” It is six months since the poisonous ideology that […]
Barbara Kay, National Post, May 5, 2024 For seven months, since Oct. 7, university students have been enjoying revolutionary cosplay. Their faces swathed in Arafat scarves, they wave flags, demand Israel disinvestment, scream mantras premised in genocide of Jews: Living entirely in the moment, they find it all tremendously exhilarating. That there may be […]
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