Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons An American academic has claimed the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians follows a theory set out by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Speaking at an online event at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) on 17 September, Professor Noura Erakat, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University,...
Follow the Money or Follow the Lies: Students for Justice in Palestine at Duke
Many proponents of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement conflate the struggle for racial justice in the United States and the war against Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.
Anti-Racism Can’t be a Pretext for Antisemitism
On September 7, a group of professors, graduate students and staff published an open letter to President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff, listing the measures they deem necessary for an “anti-racist Cornell.” Buried within this set of proposals was the curious request that the University address “Cornell Tech’s involvement in...
STATEMENT Regarding the Columbia University BDS Referendum
As the Jewish News Syndicate recently reported, Columbia students are voting on whether the school should “‘divest its stocks, funds and endowment from companies that profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s acts towards Palestinians’ that, according to the student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), ‘fall under...
‘Death to America’ Shouldn’t be a Lesson Plan
Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Wikimedia Commons “When college students graduate, they’ll be hit with reality.” For years, we’ve been hearing that radicalism is unsustainable in the real world. Yet, as evidenced by recent student-led protests sweeping the nation, it seems as though reality is merely bending to their whim. These students, some...
A University’s Empty Pledge
In response to the August 2017 “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia — which saw throngs of white nationalists yelling, among other obscenities, “Jews will not replace us” — then president of San Francisco State University (SFSU), Les Wong, published a message of consolation. The memo was remarkably passionate. Wong decried...
San Francisco State’s Ethnicities Department to Host Documented Palestinian Terrorist
San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) is scheduled to host later this month a virtual conversation with a known Palestinian terrorist. Leila Khaled played a critical role in two airplane hijackings as a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of...
Bashing Opportunities to Study Hebrew in Israel
Photo: Philafrenzy/Wikimedia Commons This month it was revealed that the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) moved its “Hebrew Year Abroad” scheme from Hebrew University in Jerusalem to Haifa University. The University of West London has also severed ties with Hebrew U and is yet to announce a replacement Hebrew program....
