Inherent to understanding fashion is understanding people: politics, economics, power and the historical cycles we unknowingly repeat. Style has always responded to crisis, conflict and cultural anxiety. When Jewish students began wearing visible symbols of identity after Oct. 7, I didn’t see a trend, I saw communication. Rutgers has one...
Bearing Witness: Why Holocaust Remembrance Must Be More Than a Date on the Calendar
Holocaust Remembrance Day is not only about remembering the past; it is about ensuring that memory remains real, personal, and meaningful in the present. As survivors age and firsthand testimony become less accessible , the responsibility to bear witness increasingly falls to younger generations. On college campuses, where historical memory...
What makes students in Israel show solidarity with a terrorist hotbed?
What makes students in Israel show solidarity with a terrorist hotbed? On January 6, 2026, Border Police and IDF forces carried out a raid on Birzeit University in the West Bank following riots involving hundreds of suspects, which included stone- and rock-throwing from rooftops toward the forces. Eleven people were...
On Canadian Campuses, Intimidation Is Becoming Policy
Canadian universities like to describe themselves as guardians of free inquiry. But across the country, they are quietly training students to learn a different lesson: that some ideas are simply not worth debating, defending, or discussing. Over the past two years, pro-Israel events have become uniquely difficult to hold on...
Publicised Hatred, Unofficially Endorsed by my Student Union
To hate Israel is simply part of the unofficial university curriculum, so embedded into our mainstream ideology it is about as universal as a student loan. At the University of Birmingham on the 12 November, the Socialist Society discussed ‘Hands off Palestine! Is a Free Palestine still possible?’ at the Food Hall....
Antisemitism in Canada is on The Rise, With Campuses Turning a Blind Eye
During a pro-Israel event organized by Students Supporting Israel at Toronto Metropolitan University (SSI) held on November 5, 2025, a group of activist students affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) forcibly entered the building. The activists chanted severe incitement slogans toward the participants, including “Zionist murderers,” while smashing...
When Reality is Optional, Hatred Becomes Possible
On January 20, 2026, inside a Miami Beach nightclub, a crowd of young people raised their arms and chanted “Heil Hitler” as a Kanye West song by that name pulsed through the speakers. Among those celebrating were social media influencers with tens of millions of followers between them. The club fired three employees....
Antisemitism Has Been Permitted on UF’s Campus
On Mar. 21, 2025, University of Florida Law student Preston Damsky posted an antisemitic message to X, using a Marxist professor’s desire to remove the inequality of privilege by “abolishing the White race” to justify harming Jews. After UF barred him from campus, Damsky filed a lawsuit, and US District Judge Allen Winsor ruled...
