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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators block roads as they rally in front of Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Sept, 10, 2024, ahead of the presidential debate between U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo by Andrew Thomas/AFP via Getty Images.

Civis Americanus Sum

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Outrage dissipates with time. Left unattended, the aggrieved become inured. Allow wrongdoers to go unpunished and forgiveness is presumed. The once extraordinary, improbably, becomes quite ordinary. The moral universe demands justice, but not the...
Afghan women work at a textile factory in Kabul in January 2012. Credit: Senior Airman Andrea Salazar/U.S. Armed Forces.

Afghanistan and Gaza: Tragedy and farce

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Keen-eyed readers of this column will know that I am fond of occasionally quoting Karl Marx’s observation that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” In those lines...

In line to enter campus, Columbia students endure anti-Israel activists

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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. Photos...

Canadian union leader defies calls to resign after being accused of ‘pattern’ of Jew-hatred,...

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About 50 people gathered outside the offices of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the country’s largest public-sector union, north of Toronto on Tuesday afternoon to call for the resignation of Fred Hahn as...

Senators call on IRS to investigate charities linked to anti-Israel protests

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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) spearheaded a letter on Thursday to Daniel Werfe, commissioner of the IRS, about an “insufficient and insulting” response to an inquiry to review the legal compliance of nonprofit charities that...

J Street’s two faces on pro-Hamas protesters

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In public, J Street says it’s horrified by the antisemitism of pro-Hamas protesters. But in private this week, J Street’s president pressured Jewish Democrats to stop accusing the protesters of being antisemitic. Why the...

Mentally, past 10 months have ‘taken a huge toll,’ Jewish students say

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Warren Weissbluth, a student at Rice University in Houston studying engineering and entrepreneurship, thinks of himself as “very much a fighter in nature.” At an airport in Greece, an Israeli woman, who noticed his...

Address ‘alarming’ Jew-hatred, reverse agreements with agitators, 18 groups tell schools

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StandWithUs led a group of 17 Jewish, Christian and other groups that fight Jew-hatred on campus in penning a letter to 142 colleges and universities, urging them to do more to combat “the alarming...

Netanyahu’s hour

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For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind. For some 54 minutes, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S....

Offensive anti-Israel protests at Holocaust memorials

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It is with profound concern that I address the recent plans for an anti-Israel protest in front of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. This deeply disturbing and offensive protest desecrates the memory...