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 […]
At Princeton, ‘We Can’t Hire a White Guy’
The indomitable Christopher Rufo recently interviewed a professor at Princeton — who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by a vindictive university administration — on President Christopher Eisgruber and the “systemic racism” that now prevails at the university he directs. More can be found here: “’We Can’t Hire a White Guy’—a Professor on […]
Campus Brownshirts On Their Uppers
All it took, apparently, was a change in administrations. Now, with the Trump administration withholding billions of dollars in funding to colleges and universities that fail to suppress the antisemitic stormtroopers who last year harassed, roughed up, and silenced Israeli and Jewish students on their campuses, suddenly many — though not all — of these […]
Peter Beinart, Anti-Zionist Jew, Taken Down Yet Again
Elder of Ziyon has a coruscating account of the latest screed by Peter Beinart, the anti-Zionist Jew who has made a career out of denouncing Israel and those who support the Jewish state. That takedown of Beinart, and of the New York Times that continues to provide Beinart with a platform, can be found here: […]
After 300 Arrests at Campus Hamas Riots, LA Will Charge Only 2 Jews
Hamas supporters get a pass. Jewish community members get charged. During the UCLA Hamas riots, it was routine for the terrorist supporters to mace and assault Jewish community members and students. And for campus security to refuse to intervene, take down evidence or call the police. The media covered up the situation. And even those […]