“Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.” A woke educational system politicizes everything, it also produces functional illiterates who only know how to be outraged at the things they’re told to be outraged at. (This is often mislabeled as teaching ‘critical thinking’.) The consequences of replacing Shakespeare […]
BDSers Losing Steam
The student antisemites and cretins (they overlap quite nicely) on American campuses have been calling, chanting, screaming for their universities to engage in a policy of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctioning — known as BDS — of companies doing business with Israel. They huff and they puff, but they haven’t been able to blow that particular […]
A Conversation From Hell
Mary Wakefield is an English journalist and the submissions editor of The Spectator. Recently she was having breakfast with her son at a place in Hackney, east London, when she began to eavesdrop on three Gen-Zers sitting at a table nearby. Here’s just a bit of her report: “No one will change their mind about […]
UNC-Chapel Hill: Pro-Hamas thugs spray-paint ROTC building and vandalize other buildings
What does anyone expect? These students from Students for Justice in Palestine (UNCSJP) and other thuggish groups have been coddled for years. It isn’t as if they haven’t noticed. They know they will suffer few, if any, consequences, despite the tough talk from administrators. “More UNC protests: ‘Number of buildings’ damaged by pro-Palestinian group at […]
Russell Rickford, Who Found October 7 Attack ‘Exhilarating,’ Again Teaching at Cornell
The New York Post reported Thursday that “the Cornell University professor who last year called Hamas’ depraved Oct. 7 attack ‘exhilarating’ sparked more outrage Wednesday after taking part in an anti-Israel march on campus where protesters chanted, ‘Long live the intifada.’” More on Russell Rickford’s reappearance in the anti-Israel protesters’ ranks can be found here: “Cornell […]
European Students Now Call American College Students ‘Hitler Youth’
Students shouted: “We will finish what Hitler started,” “Gas more Jews” and “The final solution.” Most of the complaints about campus hate in the wake of Oct 7 have come from Jewish college students, but not all of them. Take this case out of Rutgers. A Rutgers Law School student who mounted a counter-protest against anti-Israel […]
Canada: Quebec government demands resignation of ‘Islamophobia czar’
The call for Elghawaby’s resignation came after she demanded that colleges and universities hire more Muslim professors. This was necessary, she claimed, because since Oct. 7, “a dangerous climate has festered on post-secondary campuses.” That’s true, but it involves Muslim and leftist students menacing Jewish and pro-Israel students, not the other way around. To remedy […]
University of Michigan’s Black Student Union Cuts Ties To Anti-Zionist Group
Now with the necessary history of Arab mistreatment of blacks in mind (I covered it yesterday here and here), let’s return to the present day’s University of Michigan, where the Black Student Union has resigned from the anti-Zionist student group Tahrir Coalition, claiming that its Muslim leadership created an atmosphere of “pervasive” anti-black discrimination. More […]
The Late Unpleasantness at Rutgers
Rutgers has become a madhouse of antisemitism: “Rutgers University Residential Assistants Reject Mandatory Antisemitism Training Session,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, September 4, 2024: As The Algemeiner has previously reported, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has been a wellspring of antisemitic rhetoric at Rutgers. The group was one of dozens of SJP chapters that cheered Hamas’s […]
Antisemitism Running Riot At Rutgers
At Rutgers, an attempt is being made to educate “the campus community” about antisemitism. Of course, the antisemites at Rutgers don’t want to learn about antisemitism; they know all there is to know about it, and they are quite sure that they are not antisemites. They just don’t like the “genocidal” Jewish state and will […]