In 2021, then-president of Rutgers, Jonathan Holloway, traveled to Tel Aviv to sign a partnership with Tel Aviv University (TAU) for future research at a cutting-edge facility being constructed in New Brunswick, The HELIX, which stands for The Health and Life Science Exchange. This project includes collaborations with Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, Nokia...
A View From Campus: Universities Are Failing to Protect Debate While Claiming to Defend It
Universities are meant to be spaces where ideas are debated and challenged, but they are also institutions that set the rules for how students participate. That authority comes with responsibility — but in recent years, administrators have applied their standards unevenly, particularly when protests around Israel and the Palestinians turn disruptive....
American Zionists; Just Call It What It Is
It doesn’t take long into the viral SubwayTakes interview with lead singer of the Strokes, Julian Casablancas, regarding a certain vulnerable minority to realize what’s actually going on. Casablanca says his hot take like he discovered a groundbreaking hypothesis: “American Zionists get the benefits of white-privileged people but talk like they are...
נשיא אוניברסיטת חיפה תחת אש: דה-לגיטימציה בעידן הפוסט אמת
בפוסט שפורסם בפברואר 2026 בפייסבוק, ארגון אקדמיה לשוויון גינה והאשים בגזענות ובסתימת פיות את דבריו של נשיא אוניברסיטת חיפה, פרופ’ גור אלרואי, כפי שהובאו בראיון למקור ראשון כאשר נשאל על הסטודנטים הערבים בקמפוס ועל “הסגל הפרוגרסיבי”. אולם נדמה כי שוב אנו עדים לאותו דפוס מוכר של אקדמיה לשוויון: כל אמירה...
On AIPAC, Lobbying, and Double Standards
So far during my time as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, I have noticed a certain growing obsession with the state of Israel. The contexts for these expressions have been as ideologically diverse as conspiratorial slop such as “Israel did 9/11,” to outright blood libels such as accusing Israel of...
Hate Disguised as “Debate”: Why Myron Gaines’ Campus Tour Demands a Real Response
When influencer Myron Gaines visited Ohio University, his appearance was framed as an example of free speech in action: a controversial speaker engaging students in open dialogue. But what unfolded was not a debate. It was a calculated performance of misinformation and hate, one that highlights a deeper issue: universities are increasingly forced...
I’m an Iranian Student at Yale: Here Is the Problem With the University’s Discourse
On April 7, the Yale MacMillan Center hosted a panel titled, “The War on Iran: A Roundtable Discussion.” The speakers repeatedly made false claims about Iran’s modern history and politics. When these claims were challenged by Iranians in the audience, they were met with dismissal and mockery. This panel epitomizes...
The Antisemitism Question
“So what’s antisemitism on campus like?” It’s the question every Jewish college student has heard a million times, whether at synagogue, in passing, or at the Sabbath table. It’s the question we’ve rehearsed a set, nearly scripted answer to over the course of the past two years. “Yeah, here and...
