Is Keffiyeh Part of the Rebel Sell?
Author’s Note: Allow me to establish two points: First, I believe the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have crossed a morally acceptable line in their response to the October 7th pogrom….
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Veritas to Falsitas: Universities Have Abandoned Truth
…in an Instagram post chanting “from the river to the sea” during the commencement address. Instead, students held anti-Israel signs, and the chanting, initially thought to be from the students…
Censure and Sensibility at USC
…anti-Israel, anti-Zionist encampments on the USC campus this spring are not grounds for the censure she and USC Provost Andrew Guzman received from USC’s Academic Senate on May 8th. Further,…
Divesting from Israel Is Not Just Wrong but Stupid
…to hurt Israel because it is trying to destroy Hamas’s military capability. But how would Harvard or Columbia selling its stock in Israel-related firms hurt Israel? Some non-university investor would…
An Octogenarian Reflects Upon Student Protests Over Six Decades
…Israel—many are no doubt inspired by the vision of earlier student protesters who brought an end to the senseless violence that resulted from American intervention in Vietnam six decades ago….
Ole Miss investigates student for making monkey noises in political debate, despite looming free speech issue
…than the advocacy of anti-Semitic genocide in the Middle East — such as purging Palestine and Israel of all Jews — that college officials say must be tolerated). The progressive…
A Simple Test for Diversity and Inclusion
While students and professors are entitled to protest any Israeli policy they want, intimations of Jew-hatred violate campus norms of diversity and inclusion (D&I)—as the E in DEI (diversity, equity,…
Developing an Ethos of ‘Extravagant’ and ‘Intentional’ Hospitality
…acts and is regulated by divine instruction. One reason that the people of Israel must treat aliens and strangers with hospitality is that Israel experienced being strangers and aliens in…
Progressive cities won’t enforce trespass laws against left-wing anti-Israel protesters, violating First Amendment rule against viewpoint discrimination
…The Democratic-run cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC have refused to remove progressive anti-Israel protesters camping out at private universities — Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and…
Texas’s Higher Ed Officials Need to Wake Up
…are encouraging students to support Palestinian terror groups including readings in their undergraduate class curricula that encourage violent “Palestinian resistance” against Israel and have spread anti-Semitic libels about Israel. Examine…
What Lies Behind Student Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel, and Anti-Semitic Uprisings?
…have to do with Israel? Well, if Jews are white oppressors, then Israel must be also. The “social justice” analysis of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is that Israelis (but presumably not…
The DEI Campus Pantomime
…that Israel is an imperialist power oppressing an indigenous people. This serves as a pretext to act as though the issue pertains only to a small country halfway across the…
Better Campus Incentives: Reward the Good, Punish the Bad
…This month’s biggest campus stories are the demonstrations growing out of the war between Hamas and Israel. Out of it have come some injuries, some reduction in academic services—e.g., at…
Top of Mind: Anti-Semitic Protesters
…speech absolutist approach overlook critical truths about both the demonstrators and the broader movement opposing Israel. While not every critique of Israel is rooted in anti-Semitism, it’s undeniable that American…
Trump, Harvard, and Godfather Politics
…what separates—albeit imperfect—democracies like the U.S. and Israel from the likes of Russia, China, and Gaza—not that you can say that in academia. Further, pseudo-intellectual elites now practice their own…
Top of Mind: Reflections on Pro-Palestinian Protests
…to divest from Israel, do they fully comprehend the minimal effect such a divestment would have on the institution? According to Barron’s, “Israeli companies constitute less than 1% of the…
The Right Must Avoid the Left’s Free Speech Pitfalls
…speech armor. While most conservatives are openly pro-Israel—I don’t know any who are pro-Hamas—some do question the Israeli government’s motives and tactics. Others wonder whether the U.S. should be expending…
Closing DEI Offices Is Not Enough
…and wellness programming. This all sounds useful, but the Commons is active on social media, publically and regularly “liking” posts that demand divestment from Israel or other aggressive posts that…
Carnegie Mellon isn’t being open about its relationship with Qatar
…attacks on Israel, universities with close ties to Middle Eastern governments have faced heightened scrutiny. In February, Texas A&M University announced it would close its Qatar branch campus after operating…
Why Law School Should Be an Undergraduate Program
…as a professional engineer, but the subject called “law” takes almost twice as long? How is it that Israel trains its lawyers in a first-class undergraduate college program, and then…
MTA Fights Racism with Anti-Semitism?
…Israel’s defensive war the massacre. Najimy called for a ceasefire, an end to what she termed genocide, and the release of both Israeli and Palestinian captives, equating Israeli hostages to…
Congress Must Defund MIT Until It Gets Its House in Order
…Nobles transformed what could have been a genuine effort to turn the tide into yet another platform where virulent anti-Semites could preach their hatred of Israel, Zionism, and the Jews….
Why Are We Surprised That Mobs of Hamas Supporters Disrupt Our Lives and Spread Hate?
…and exclusion of Israeli Arabs from Israeli society and institutions, which blatantly does not exist. But all of these accusations that convey hate and recommend death for Israeli Jews seem…
Escalation Towards an Independent Terrorist State
…truth is that for millennia, the land of Israel, whether occupied by Jacob’s tribes or others, has been the domain of countless generations of Israelites. The vast majority of Israel’s…
A Long View on Artificial Intelligence
…for AI. Australia, Israel, the UK, and India apply existing privacy laws to regulate AI. Many countries, e.g. Singapore and those in the EU, are discussing additional AI-specific regulation. Some…
The Takeover
…institutional failure. Something new and peculiar stands out about the wave of anti-Israel student activism that has rocked American university campuses since October: There is a visibly more radical element…
Affirmative Action for Intellectual Diversity?
…grievance “studies” such as black—anti-white—studies, queer—anti-straight—studies, feminist—anti-male—studies, Middle Eastern—anti-Israel—studies as Yenor urges.[1] Yes, it cannot be denied; this would be a gigantic step in the right direction. But, as I…
The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…Israel offers an undergraduate law degree, and it qualifies its graduates to take the New York bar exam in the U.S. This should be a flashing “red light” that something…
Revisiting Eisenhower’s Instructions for Combatting Antisemitism
…embroiled in a heated discussion over what constitutes antisemitism. In the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks launched by Hamas against targets in Israel, and the subsequent retaliatory military…
Israel is an Apartheid Country? No
…(48). In sharp contrast, what crimes have been committed by the Israeli hostages now held by Hamas? None. Zero. Do the Israelis typically violate the rights of their Arab citizens?…