And these endorsers of genocidal Jew-hatred went away thinking they were on the side of righteousness. “Single photo of Sydney University students turning their backs on their Jewish peers sparks furious backlash,” by Caitlin Powell, Daily Mail Australia, May 17, 2025: A photo of University of Sydney students turning their backs on a Jewish speaker […]
Salman Rushdie pulls out as college graduation speaker after complaints from Hamas-linked CAIR
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a fascist organization that energetically opposes all opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, no matter how tepid and poorly focused (as is Rushdie’s). “Salman Rushdie pulls out as Claremont McKenna College graduation speaker,” by Arianna Clay, Los Angeles Daily News, May 13, 2025: Novelist Salman […]
Why Is Duke’s Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department Spending So Much Time Maligning the Jewish State?
Mishana Garschi is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Duke University gender studies program. According to her very own web page, Garschi’s interests “include Black feminist theory, feminist theory, popular culture, and the politics of diversity and inclusion.” She liked a post so much that she reposted it on X: “having a phd and being a […]
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke: An Introduction
I have already written here about Duke Professor Frances Hasso and her anti-Israel animus that has sunk ineluctably into outright antisemitism. But Hasso is only one part of a much bigger problem. It turns out that her entire department, the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, appears to be engaged in a multi-year orgy […]
Annals of Antisemitism, Or Raising Hell In Hochelaga
Up in Quebec, would-be medical students share a Discord channel on which they discuss their preparations for, and applications to, various medical schools in Quebec. That at least is what they are supposed to be discussing. Some, however, thought that the channel would be just the place to indulge in the “oldest hatred” — antisemitism. […]
Introducing Frances Hasso, Tenured and Untethered
Every American university has at least few of these creatures on its faculty. You know the type, the dreary type. These are the real haters of Israel, like Rashid Khalidi, Juan Cole, Hamid Dabashi, people who are wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’ that the Jewish state would disappear altogether, to be replaced by […]
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 […]
Harvard, Not Ready For Its Close-Up
Harvard is no doubt hoping that its just-released report on antisemitism at the university — that is, its admission of antisemitism on its campus that it failed to appropriately deal with — will quiet its critics. But it won’t, because there is a great deal that Harvard left out of its mea-culpa report. And how […]
Mohsen Mahdawi: More to the Story
According to much of the media, Mohsen Mahdawi was unjustly arrested by the fascistic and racist Trump administration. Mahdawi, that media assures us, has neither done nor said anything wrong. He says so himself, and who would know better what Mohsen Mahdawi is all about, what are his hopes and dreams, than Mohsen Mahdawi? He […]
Antisemitism at Harvard: At Massachusetts Hall, They Still Don’t Get It
The President of Harvard and the university’s other high muck-a-mucks have their offices in stately Massachusetts Hall, from where they are masters of all they survey (and some things they can’t survey, like the colonial-settler outpost Harvard has created in Allston). But now some people, including formerly generous alumni who have now turned off the […]