Tag: Campus Antisemitism
Educational malpractice and antisemitism resurgence in our schools
Ted and Nancy Sizer, giants in educational thought and practice, famously wrote The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract, which inextricably links what happens in our classrooms with what happens in our society....
Harvard’s chaplain slanders Israel
Alexander (“Shabbos”) Kestenbaum, the Jewish student activist at Harvard University who gained national prominence for speaking at the Republican convention in July, recently shared how the chaplains at Harvard are falling Jewish students.
On Nov....
America’s future depends on Trump’s promise to punish woke universities
Occidental College seemingly waved the white flag last week in its efforts to defend itself against charges of tolerating antisemitism on its Los Angeles campus. The school agreed to a “sweeping settlement” with the Anti-Defamation League...
The Pessin Affair
Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College. Richard Landes. Published by Academic Studies Press, 2020. 32.95 pp.218
At Connecticut College, in the Spring of 2015, Andrew...
Is Brandeis University being ‘Palestinized?’
Why is the Israel Studies Center at Brandeis University describing the Hamas war against Israel merely as the “suffering of Israelis and Palestinians?” Why is the center boasting that it “brings Palestinian scholars” to...
‘Pretty insane,’ comedian says of pro-Hamas frat ‘social experiment’
Pretending to recruit for a pro-Hamas fraternity on a college campus taught two Jewish comedians how much future leaders can be sheep.
Zach Sage Fox, the CEO and founder of a production company, and Yechiel...
In line to enter campus, Columbia students endure anti-Israel activists
With the start of the new academic year at Columbia University in New York City, visitors needed to pass through security while dozens of demonstrators yelled slogans opposing the school and the Jewish state.
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Education Department resolves federal Jew-hatred complaint against University of Illinois
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it resolved a complaint alleging “numerous incidents of antisemitism” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “including the recurring appearance of swastikas throughout campus, mezuzahs ripped...
Cooper Union president resigns, having cited ‘new challenges’ last year
Laura Sparks, president of Cooper Union in New York City, announced on July 17 that she would step down In August, but the news only began to spread widely on Thursday.
“Cooper Union president Laura...
House leaders demand 10 elite colleges detail plans to counter campus Jew-hate
The heads of the Education and the Workforce Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee have called on administrators at 10 top colleges to provide detailed plans to prevent bigotry and intimidation against Jewish students seen...