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In February of 2016, Oberlin professor Joy Karega made headlines for the antisemitic conspiracy theories she posted on Facebook. Nearly nine months later, after much hand-wringing about free speech, she was fired. But Oberlin’s problem with antisemitism neither started nor ended with Joy Karega. Karega was only a symptom of...

In writing this response article I wanted to focus specifically on what Luke Spaltro wrote in the Daily Targum on Thursday. In his commentary on Rutgers SJP’s suspension (and subsequent reinstatement) Spaltro concluded with, “To be for divestment is to be anti-Zionist, anti-settler colonialism and anti-apartheid, not antisemitic.To be for...

Exeter PhD candidate, Zarefah Baroud, has a history of using emotionally charged language and historical revisionism to demonise Israel. It comes as no surprise that the same person who cheered Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7 and denounced Israel’s response, wrote an opinion piece for Al Jazeera in 2022...

The foods and spices that enriched my childhood — malojahea, fasulia, labneh and za’atar — are unfamiliar to most of my Jewish peers at GW. Despite sharing common words and phrases, our prayer tunes hardly harmonize. And when I share my grandfather’s story, their eyes widen and jaws drop: a...

In recent years, UK universities’ student-led groups, such as the Palestine Society at SOAS, have clearly imposed dominating anti-Israel rhetoric, making it a normal standard for many more academic institutions around the country. In 2020, the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, and Leeds were publicly shamed and condemned by various anti-Israel...

“I, for one, will never begrudge—on the contrary, it warms every fiber of my soul—the scenes of Gaza’s smiling children as their arrogant Jewish supremacist oppressors have, finally, been humbled,” cheered Norman Finkelstein, one of Israel’s bitterest academic critics, when he heard about the October 7 massacre. “Glory, glory, hallelujah....

Jewish college students are dealing with attacks on Israel and harassment on their campuses. When will it stop?  It feels odd — wrong, even — that my family and friends scattered across Israel are asking me if I’m okay and safe. But I’m not, and nor are many of my...