South African archbishop and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, who died on December 26th at the age of 90, was justifiably hailed as a champion of racial equality, especially related to his role in helping…
Topic: anti-Israel
The Ascent of the Crybully in Campus Anti-Israel Activism
As woke activists who are part of the cognitive war against Israel continue their campaign of slanders against the Jewish state, a curious thing has taken place: the self-righteous moral scolds who choose to relentlessly…
Shutting Down Pro-Israel Speech at Duke
As if further evidence were needed for the hypocrisy about who may say what about whom on college campuses, the recent action by the Duke Student Government to withhold recognition to a new pro-Israel student…
Editorializing for Hamas
When Elmer Davis, director of FDR’s Office of War Information, observed that “. . . you cannot do much with people who are convinced that they are the sole authorized custodians of Truth and that…
Why Academic Departments Should Steer Clear of Activism Against Israel
The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident last spring as Hamas showered southern Israeli town with some 4000 rockets and mortars. These woke, virtue-signaling moral narcissists, however, instead of denouncing…
The Moral Incoherence of an Academic Boycott Against Israel
Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s wry observation that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” the fatuous members of the Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS)…
Jewish Students Under Attack
The hostile climate on university campuses that targets Jews As yet more evidence that Jewish students have continued to be targets of bias on university campuses, a Spring 2021 poll by the Louis D. Brandeis…
The Murderous Anti-Semitism of the Effort to Kill Iron Dome
Why the Left seems to think it’s perfectly acceptable for Jews to die in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Even for Congressional Democrats who, in recent years, have shown a growing animosity and even cruelty…
Conspiratorial Anti-Zionism at Bristol University
“Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history operate behind our backs?” For a wide range of ideological…
Forcing Jewish Students to Malign and Injure Israel at Pomona College
As more evidence that maligning and seeking to weaken and destroy Israel is still common behavior on American college campuses, the student government of Pomona College successfully pushed through a resolution that would compel student…