George Mason University seems to have become a hotbed of jihad activity. Two sisters who head up Students for Justice in Palestine there were recently discovered to have firearms and material calling for death to America and death to Jews. And now this. Could it have something to do with what is being taught there? […]
University of South Carolina prof: ‘Islam is Magic; Magic is Science; Science is Empire’
Matthew Melvin-Koushki is “Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of South Carolina.” He “specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, with a focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the wider Persianate world to the nineteenth century.” He has a couple of books in […]
The Graves of Academe (#756)
#1. Duke University, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies postdoc – Feminism and the Culture Wars The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist (GSF) Studies invites applications for a residential postdoctoral associate focused on “Feminism and the Culture Wars” for the 2025-2026 academic year. Through research, teaching, and service, the associate will contribute to […]
Pro-Hamas thugs scrawl genocidal threat ‘KHAYBAR’ on San Francisco Hillel House
Last night, the @SFHillel House, a block from the @SFSU campus, was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, and the perpetrators attempted to break in. The graffiti referenced ‘Khaybar,’ a historic region in 7th-century Arabia where a battle between Muslims and Jews resulted in… pic.twitter.com/pWFGAegPv4 — JCRC Bay Area (@SFJCRC) December 9, 2024 This is a death […]
Are Campus Pro-Palestinian Protests About to Get Violent?
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. Could campus protests against Israel turn violent? There is good reason to believe that they could, and there are […]
CUNY Chancellor Rodriguez Doesn’t Know If There Are Any Antisemites On Campus
CUNY, like Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, and dozens of other universities, has been wracked with anti-Israel demonstrations, their participants chanting that “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which means that Israel must disappear, and be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. Some also call for murderous violence against not just Israelis, but all […]
For Employment at UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission, Jews Need Not Apply
How far has the antisemitic rot spread on American campuses? This far: at UCLA, students who identified as Jews, or who were suspected of being Jews, were refused employment at the Cultural Affairs Commission of the Undergraduate Students Association Council. More on this antisemitic discrimination can be found here: “UCLA student culture group accused of […]
At the Oxford Union, a Vote Upholds Israel’s ‘Genocide’
The Oxford Union, a venerable student debating society, is best known for a vote taken on February 9,1933. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler had been appoInted by German President Paul von Hindenburg to be Reichskanzler of Germany. On February 8, 1933 at the Oxford Union, a motion was presented, “That this House will under […]
Pro-Palestinian Stormtroopers Get Israeli Historian’s Talk Canceled
At the University of Leipzig, a lecture by the Israeli historian Benny Morris was cancelled after a pro-Palestinian group on campus threatened to violently disrupt it. Instead of increasing the number of security personnel to protect Professor Morris and those attending his lecture, the university — a German university, mind you — caved and cancelled […]
Trump Lays Down the Law on Antisemitism in Universities
In Trump’s first term, Jews were declared to be a minority group protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And now, just weeks away from beginning his second term, Trump has laid down the law, in a speech he just gave at a rally against antisemitism in Washington. American universities that fail to […]