When you’re getting flak, the saying goes, you know you are over the target. Columbia University alum and current member of the Ivy League school’s Board of Trustees Shoshana Shendelman is taking a lot of flak — in the form of hit pieces such as the one recently published by the Intercept that might have been […]
Oh Good God, Harvard Again?
The Harvard Class of 2025 has graduated with nary a nasty mention at the ceremony of the colonial-settler ethnic-cleansing genocidal state of Israel, the very state that was being denounced at another graduation ceremony just down the road, the road being Massachusetts Avenue, and the graduation ceremony being at MIT. MIT’s Class Speaker, the pro-Muslim […]
Book Review: Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments
For the truth about Byzantium, see Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. “Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments, by Diana Darke, London: Hurst & Company, 2024. 480 pp., $29.99,” Reviewed by Robert Spencer, Middle East Forum, Summer 2025: Darke, a former BBC broadcaster now living in Damascus, contributes to the […]
Hamas taunted Israeli hostages with images of Columbia University protests: ‘We have our own people everywhere’
How many of the young people at those protests realized that they were tools of a bloodthirsty, frankly genocidal jihad group? “Hamas taunted Israeli hostages with images of antisemitic Columbia University protests: ‘We have our own people everywhere,’” by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, New York Post, May 30, 2025: Hamas captors cruelly taunted Israeli hostages with news […]
At MIT, Student Speaker Denounces Israel
The class president of the graduating class at MIT this year is one Megha Vemuri. An Indian-American, Vemuri is apparently a Hindu, but one who clearly has no idea that the same jihadist impulse that ever since 1948 has forced the Jewish state to fight three major wars for its survival in 1948, 1967, and […]
Muslim Student Threatens to Murder His University Teacher
The teacher now lives in fear. And the Muslim student whom she supervised at the University of Aix-Marseille faces no prison time for the death threat he made against her on Instagram. More on this latest display of Muslim death threats, and the unwillingness of the authorities to properly punish such threats, can be found […]
Duke Alumni and Parents Object to Antisemite Frances Hasso
Frances Hasso is a professor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department at Duke University. I have written about her before, here and here. You can probably guess, from the department she is in, her take on Israel. She hates the tiny embattled state now fighting a multi-front war, that in her view copies […]
Universities Should Not Be Accepting Money from Qatar, a Hamas-Supporting Plutocracy
Qatar’s influence-buying continues on a grand scale: “Universities Are Selling Out to Qatar, and Selling Off Their Integrity,” by Mitchell Bard, Algemeiner, May 18, 2025: Cornell University is the biggest beneficiary, receiving more than $2.1 billion. In 2001, it launched the Weill Medical College in Qatar, with the emirate pledging $750 million in 11 years, […]
Qatar Spreads Its Wealth from Sea to Shining Sea
Qatar is the fabulously rich little land where only 10% of the population is Qatari, who need do no work to live on the government’s cradle-to-grave support, while all the real work, from cooks and construction workers at the bottom, to doctors and engineers and bankers at the top, is done by foreigners. Of the […]
Introducing the Students Who Invaded Columbia’s Library
The intrepid students who with their bodies themselves spoke truth to power by invading and taking over Columbia’s library building, are an impressive bunch. For they are perfect specimens of a type to be found on American campuses from sea to shining sea, products of our educational system which, as we all know, is second […]