Photo: Brent Smith/Wikimedia Commons Common sense would suggest that demonizing the nation-state of the Jewish people is antithetical to the principles of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Nevertheless, that’s exactly what Butler University’s Student Government Association’s (SGA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board propagated through their co-sponsorship of last week’s “Boycott and...
Continuing a One-Way ‘Conversation’
Photo: Cantavestrella/Wikimedia Commons The latest of the SOAS University of London “Continuing the Conversations” online events series—“U.S. and Palestine: Shoot to Kill Policies and Transnational Resistance”—offered a platform for activist and professor Noura Erakat of Rutgers University to provide a heavily biased account as opposed to facilitating a conversation over...
Lecturer Tells SOAS Event That Israel Deploys Legal ‘Logic’ set out by Nazi Jurist
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...
