On many college campuses, Jewish student spaces have increasingly become targets for ideological confrontation when associated with Israel. The issue is no longer just political disagreement over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but a growing expectation that Jewish students must distance themselves from mainstream Jewish organizations in order to comfortably participate in...
At California Universities, Students Rally to Support Terrorists and Criticize Victims
Universities are supposed to expose students to difficult perspectives, not shield them from uncomfortable ones. But on many campuses, Jewish and Israeli voices are increasingly treated not as viewpoints to engage with, but as problems to manage or condemn. Few recent incidents captured that shift more clearly than the reaction...
Amos Goldberg Is Wrong about the IHRA Definition
Writing for +972 Magazine’s Hebrew edition, Professor Amos Goldberg praised New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to rescind the city’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which his predecessor Eric Adams adopted. Goldberg is hardly alone in bristling at the widely accepted definition. For years, he and other Israeli...
The New Normal for Jewish Students: Security Checks and Police Presence
In February 2026, a university screening at King’s College London required an astonishing level of security: 30 police officers and 15 professional security personnel for 20 students and five members of the university’s staff. The reason? A 47-minute film of raw footage from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack was screened, showing...
Excusing Iran: How Antisemitism Inhibits Moral Clarity on Campus
In the weeks following the outbreak of the war between the US-Israel alliance and Iran, professors and student groups around the country have painted the Iranian regime as a force of anti-colonial resistance rather than as one of the prime instigators of global terrorism and regional destabilization. When professors use...
The Free Speech Victimhood Paradox
Free speech is the most important component of democracy and an unalienable right here in the United States. Though, freedom of speech does not equate to freedom of consequence. Throughout the anti-Israel crowd, there’s this fervent and manipulative victimhood complex about “free speech” and “censorship, as commentators with massive platforms...
A View From My Campus: Sacrificing Science and Innovation for Political Symbolism
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....
