A Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter has offered us yet another astounding defense of antisemitic vitriol—this time at Florida State University (FSU). After the school’s Student Senate president, Ahmad Daraldik, found himself in the hot seat due to his own past antisemitic social-media posts and shockingly antisemitic website, he took to Facebook to explain himself on...
Inspired by Violence? KCL Action Palestine & Ghassan Kanafani
The literary work of Ghassan Kanafani is lauded by various anti-Israel activists and was recently praised by the King’s College London Action Palestine (KCLAP) society, who published a celebrated commentary on Kanafani by Lebanese public intellectual Elias Khoury, close to the anniversary of the former’s birth. Khoury himself has been accused of “Holocaust inversion”...
Protecting Pro-Israel and Jewish Voices Through Law
University students often fall victim to antisemitic and anti-Zionist discrimination on campus, yet most students don’t realize that they have legal rights to combat this behavior. Many universities consider Zionism as a solely political movement and fail to recognize that anti-Zionist rhetoric creates and often reinforces antisemitism on campus. Students...
More Antisemitic Activity at UMass Amherst is Not a Surprise
This Holocaust Remembrance Day, as Israel and the rest of the world commemorated the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah, anti-Israel activists thought it was appropriate to vandalize the UMass Amherst Hillel center. Spray-painted in red graffiti, the name “Palestine” was emblazoned in Arabic on the front of the building. The...
Campus Campaigns to Delegitimize Israel
This past semester, I attended an event hosted by the campus organization Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP). There is no doubt that it would be impossible to unravel all the untruths uttered during this event in one short article, yet there is no question about what the overall message...
Despite Coronavirus, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Are Present on Campus
A recent webinar hosted by Bard University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Ohio State University SJP featured George Mason and Rutgers professor Noura Erakat, who spoke on Zionism and the State of Israel. Throughout the webinar, Erakat made outlandish and blatantly false remarks, such as labeling Zionism a...
Miko Peled’s Marketplace of Ideas
The campus of a twenty-first century university is a marketplace. Students from far and wide come to exchange, display, and trade their most valuable currency: their opinions. Woven with real fabrics and embroidery from ancient history, these opinions are constructed from each student’s most valuable “textile” – their personalized economy...
At King’s College, Anti-Zionism is Rampant
Photo: Rob Farrow/geograph.org.uk King’s College London (KCL) has unfortunately become one of the largest hubs of hostile anti-Zionism in the United Kingdom. It’s hugely popular Palestinian Society has seemingly become the most active student organization of its kind in the capital. Although I do not believe it is problematic for...
