Much more of this is needed. Why must the United States play generous host to those who hate it and its allies? BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia, has reportedly been detained by DHS and had his green card revoked. He was a lead negotiator in the 2024 encampment at Columbia and is seen […]
Barnard President Denounces Pro-Hamas Demonstrators
Laura Rosenbury is the president of Columbia’s sister school, Barnard, where anti-Israel demonstrators have been especially active and destructive. She has now denounced, in an op-ed that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a viciously pro-Hamas group that has been active on both the Barnard and the Columbia […]
Trump Administration Shows Columbia University It Means Business About Protecting Jewish Students
My latest in PJ Media is a VIP article. I am happy to be able to offer you a 5% discount on becoming a VIP member at PJ Media. Just enter the code SPENCER when you sign up here. One of the many exciting aspects of the second Trump administration so far has been that it does what […]
Trump cancels $400 million to Columbia University for ‘inaction in face of harassment of Jewish students’
Richly deserved and long overdue, and much, much more must be done to restore sanity to American academia. “Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University,” by Luke Barr, ABC News, March 7, 2025: NEW YORK (WABC) — The Trump administration has cancelled $400 million worth of grants and contracts […]
Columbia Now Faces an Expensive Day of Reckoning
On many American campuses, antisemitic nitwits have ever since the beginning of the war in Gaza storm-trooped around, calling for the disappearance of Israel and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state (“From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free”), expressing a wish for homicidal violence against Jews (“Intifada Forever”), and accusing the Jewish […]
College Goes After Patriotic Student Group
New in PJ Media: Remember when our nation’s colleges and universities were actual institutions of higher learning, where ideas were accepted or dismissed on their merit, and rational, evidence-based discussion and debate were encouraged? Yeah, I know, I’m dating myself, as those days recede ever farther into the distant past. Davidson College in North Carolina […]
Columbia University: Pro-Hamas students violently take over building, scream for ‘intifada revolution’
BREAKING: Students at faculty at Columbia University have violently taken over a building, while chanting “there is only solution, intifada revolution.” Columbia has completely lost control. Every single person should be arrested and expelled. pic.twitter.com/kyFScgmoGm — Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 26, 2025 Not a penny of federal funding should go to Columbia. Donors who have […]
Hunter College Seeks a Professor of Palestine Studies
Elder of Ziyon just the other day came across an announcement from Hunter College about its intention to hire someone to fill an open-rank, tenure-line position in “Palestine Studies.” On considering his own qualifications, Elder of Ziyon concluded that he would make a good candidate for such a job and he shares with us a […]
Hamas Supporter Appears in New York Times Ad by ‘Jews’ Opposing Trump Gaza Plan
“The uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack and it’s not an antisemitic attack.” Judith Butler, a radical leftist academic who described Hamas as “progressive” and part of the Left, and who defended the atrocities of Oct 7 by the Islamic terrorist group, was one of […]
The Salon Jihadists of Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College has always been an academic figure of fun. It has long been known as the college especially favored by the ditzy daughters of deep-pocketed denizens of New York, fetching girls in leotards liable to major in ballet and basket-weaving and Buddhist thought and Benzedrine. It now takes male students as well; they […]