“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 […]
Columbia U Jewish Students Faced Violent Assaults from Hamas Supporters
“October seventh is going to be every day for you.” Earlier this year, three Columbia University deans sat during a panel on the experiences of Jewish students with campus antisemitism and texted mocking messages to each other. Their interactions become all the more vile in light of the newly released report about the experiences of Jewish students at Columbia. […]
Columbia University Leftist Coalition Lays Out Its Real Goal, and It’s Positively Chilling
New in PJ Media: Columbia University Apartheid Divest describes itself as “a coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation.” But it’s not just interested in “Palestine.” On Thursday, it issued “a statement in solidarity with the student movement in Bangladesh” that didn’t actually get around to mentioning Bangladesh at all. It did, […]
Columbia University anti-Israel group: ‘We are Westerners fighting for total eradication of Western civilization’
They said it. Their critics didn’t. The Columbia University Apartheid Divest group itself said it. Here is the link to their post, for those who think this is fake. For years, I have been among those who were warning about a document dating from May 1991, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the […]
Students at Columbia’s Union Theological Seminary want prof who said ‘I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah’ rehired
And why not? Abdou is no different from the professors who are still employed, both at Columbia and elsewhere. “Columbia students want ‘I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad’ prof back in classroom,” College Fix, July 16, 2024: Students at Columbia’s Union Theological Seminary want the rehiring of a professor who posted “I’m with […]
Billionaire Mort Zuckerman cuts off millions in donations to Columbia over its embrace of Jew-hatred
John Guandolo is right. Our colleges and universities have been cesspits of far-left indoctrination for quite some time. Yet the millions have continued to flow in, even from many people who should have known better. For the most part, they still do. Its been a pro-Iranian/pro-terrorist university for over two decades. Mort is either dumb […]
At Columbia, the Antisemitic Plot Thickens
At Columbia, the antisemitic plot thickens. “Three Columbia Deans Placed on Leave Pending Investigation,” by Eliana Johnson, Washington Free Beacon, June 20, 2024: Three of the Columbia University deans caught exchanging dismissive text messages during a May 31 panel on anti-Semitism have been placed on leave as the university investigates the incident, a spokesman for the school […]
Columbia Law Graduate Snubs Alma Mater, Leaves $260 Million to Israel’s Bar Ilan University
Israel’s Bar-Ilan University received its largest ever donation of nearly NIS 1 billion ($260 million) earlier this week, from the estate of an anonymous donor who is reported to be an alumni of Columbia University, according to the New York Post. More on this unexpected gift can be found here: “Columbia University alumnus snubs alma […]
Columbia Law Review Removes Its Entire Website Over Absurd Nakba Article
A Palestinian “human rights activist,” one Rabea Eghbariah, currently a student at Harvard Law School, wrote an article on “The Legal Concept of the Nakba” for Columbia Law Review. It was 100 pages of absolute rubbish, and the appalled adults in the room — the law professors and lawyers who serve on Columbia Law Review’s […]
The Double Standard on Campus Speech
Free speech for Hamas supporters. None for anyone else. After weeks in which college students at campuses from Columbia to Harvard to UCLA celebrated murders and rapes, waved the flags of Islamic terrorist organizations and assaulted Jewish people, one student has finally been held accountable. The student, a frat brother at University of Mississippi, was […]