In the two years since October 7, the anti-Israel campus group known as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has dwindled from a force to a farce. From occupying buildings, disrupting classes, and setting up encampments, it now resorts to hunger strikes. Not long ago, SJP members were threatening to take over every campus until […]
How Dry Iran?
“Water water, every where, Nor any drop to drink,” from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a suitable motto for the Islamic Republic of Iran. With the Persian Gulf in the Southwest, the Sea of Oman in the South, and the Caspian Sea (an inland brackish water lake) in the North, Iran […]
Addressing Campus SJP Problems, Part 2: Denial at the University of Rochester
While some university administrations give in to their SJP protesters, and others fight back, the University of Rochester (UofR) in upstate New York simply denies that SJP exists on its campus. I learned about this baffling approach to the SJP problem after I wrote in May about a protest at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where […]
Addressing Campus SJP Problems, Part 1: Some Approaches
Classes began at most American colleges and universities last week. Will a sense of normalcy return, or will students be forced to endure a third year of double-masked keffiyeh-clad hipsters, shouting “Free Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea”? On each campus, it will depend on how the administration deals with its SJP […]
How Academics Can Show Support for Israel at Graduation Ceremonies
Last year, as the 2023-2024 academic year came to an end, I was feeling fortunate to be teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a school that had successfully stopped the anti-Israel madness that had taken over much of academia. Since several friends had children who were completing their degrees, I decided to attend the graduation […]
Bassam Haddad – Part 2: Interview With a Terrorist
Not content to reveal his dull wit in bad comedy with his two friends, Bassam Haddad also conducts solo interviews with people who share his views, posting them at Jadaliyya, an Islamist website/Ezine focusing on the Middle East. Not surprisingly, he shares the views of most Palestinian terrorists. An interview with the worst of the bunch—notorious Palestinian […]
Bassam Haddad – Part 1: George Mason University’s Hamas Cheerleader
After a freshman at George Mason University (GMU) was arrested on December 17 for plotting to attack the Israeli consulate in New York City, Robert Spencer asked rhetorically at Jihad Watch, “Could it have something to do with what is being taught there?”The student in question, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, was arrested just weeks after a police […]
Media Attack Investigative Reporter for Investigating and Reporting on Hamas-Linked CAIR
When accusations first emerged that Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) had an informant inside the Ohio office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), it was clear that the media had missed the story entirely. Instead of bemoaning “spying” by a “mole” inside the most high-profile Islamist group in the nation, the headlines […]
From Minneapolis to Vienna, projecting weakness invites aggression
If the Biden administration manages to reach an agreement with Iran in Vienna that, like its predecessor, confers legitimacy on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s nuclear program, it will be the third watershed display of American weakness in fewer than two years. Caving to the Islamic Republic would join the U.S. military’s handover of Bagram Air […]
The Palestinian Solidarity Statement I’d Like to See
The petition is available here at Change.org, where anyone can sign it, even anonymously. In May, as Israel defended itself from yet another onslaught of missiles fired from Gaza, thousands of academics wrote and signed statements of solidarity with Palestinians. Along with the usual professions of contempt for the “colonial-settler” Jewish state came another staple of anti-Israel […]