The foods and spices that enriched my childhood — malojahea, fasulia, labneh and za’atar — are unfamiliar to most of my Jewish peers at GW. Despite sharing common words and phrases, our prayer tunes hardly harmonize. And when I share my grandfather’s story, their eyes widen and jaws drop: a...
Are Protests on College Campuses “Independent of the Hamas Party Line”?
When the current war between Israel and Gaza is over and the reporting of it is reviewed and judged, this sentence written by Graeme Wood in The Atlantic will rank among the silliest written: Those on U.S. college campuses and in European capitals calling for a cease-fire are demonstrating their admirable independence...
An Invidious UK: Academia’s anti-Israel Influence from Grassroots to Bureaucrats
In recent years, UK universities’ student-led groups, such as the Palestine Society at SOAS, have clearly imposed dominating anti-Israel rhetoric, making it a normal standard for many more academic institutions around the country. In 2020, the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, and Leeds were publicly shamed and condemned by various anti-Israel...
Silent Suffering: The Alarming Surge of Antisemitism in UK Higher Education
On the 7th of October, there were more Jews slaughtered in cold blood in one day than any day since the Holocaust. Palestinian terrorists and their supporters kidnapped Jewish babies, burnt them alive, ripped them from their mother’s wombs, and cooked one in an oven. After women were raped, entire...
Anti-Israel Crybullies and the Free Speech Inversion
The term “crybully” rose to prominence over the last decade, and describes a phenomenon that has become increasingly common on campus. As defined at Dictionary.com, a crybully is “a person who self-righteously harasses or intimidates others while playing the victim, especially of a perceived social injustice.” This is a particularly...
What Norman Finkelstein Gets Wrong About Gazan Misery
“I, for one, will never begrudge—on the contrary, it warms every fiber of my soul—the scenes of Gaza’s smiling children as their arrogant Jewish supremacist oppressors have, finally, been humbled,” cheered Norman Finkelstein, one of Israel’s bitterest academic critics, when he heard about the October 7 massacre. “Glory, glory, hallelujah....
תגובה לקריאות להפסקת אש
לאחרונה צויין חודש לטבח ב-7 באוקטובר, שבו נרצחו באכזריות בקהילותיהם למעלה מ-1,200 ישראלים, כולל נשים, ילדים וזקנים. בתגובה, ישראל הצהירה שהיא תמחק את החמאס, ארגון טרור. מאז אמצע אוקטובר, ממשיך צה”ל לבצע מספר תקיפות ממוקדות ופעולות קרקעיות בתוך רצועת עזה. בתגובה, ראינו מסבירים של חמאס צצים כמו פטריות אחרי הגשם,...
Uncomfortable truths behind SOAS’s student “resistance”
On October 7, 2023, Hamas infiltrated Israel at 6:30 a.m. with a barrage of rockets, and thousands of terrorists crossed the border fence from Gaza. Upon entry, they raped, murdered, pillaged and burned alive 1,200 Israelis, and took over 240 hostage. Over 8,000 rockets have been fired at Israeli civilian areas since the beginning of the war, and bodies, including those...