Photo: Rehgina/Wikimedia Commons Last semester, Apartheid Off Campus, in conjunction with the Palestinian Solidarity Group (PSG) at the University of Leeds (UoL), held an event featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled. The event was met with much opposition from both the Leeds Jewish Society (JSoc) and the Student Union, both of whom felt that...
For One Campus Student Group, Who’s the Real Victim?
Photo: Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Commons In mid-November of 2020, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at Northeastern University in Boston promoted terrorist propaganda. In a since-deleted Instagram post, SJP bragged that they would be “reading through different strategies and theory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP]”...
How Antisemites Hijack Progressive Causes on Campus
Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick/Wikimedia Commons This year the world is changing, and great calls for social and political reform have been heard everywhere. After the murder of George Floyd, the strongest calls were for equality for the Black community, inspiring many other groups to join the fight. Unfortunately, some have...
Ohio State University’s ‘Day of Action’ Leads to Anger, Lies, and Misinformation
Photo: Robert Chriss/Wikimedia Commons During an October 27 Ohio State University (OSU) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) event, facts became irrelevant. And the dozen-or-so students in attendance became a dozen-or-so more casualties of rage politics, a psycholinguistic maneuver seen throughout history to rally crowds of people into a state of anger...
Why American Public Universities Should Hesitate To Give Terror a Platform
Photo: Orin Zebest/Wikimedia Commons When it comes to sponsors of terrorism, the last place you might expect to find one would be an American public university. The American Jewish community was shocked this past September, when the San Francisco State University (SFSU) Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies program,...
מוות לאמריקה לא אמור להופיע בסילבוס
Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Wikimedia Commons “כשהסטודנטים יסיימו את הלימודים, הם יקבלו הלם מהמציאות.” במשך שנים אנו שומעים שרדיקליות אינה יכולה לשרוד בעולם האמיתי. עם זאת, כפי שמעידות המחאות האחרונות של הסטודנטים ששטפו את ארה”ב, נראה כאילו משנים את המציאות. סטודנטים אלה, שחלקם מגנים כל אקט של התפרעות, ביזה ואפילו מצעדים ברחובות...
‘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...