“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…
Topic: anti-Semitism
Rallying in Support of Terror and Denouncing Israel on Woke Campuses
As Israel and Hamas crafted a cease-fire to end two weeks of military activity in which both Gazans and Israelis have died, student governments and faculty members at many universities have issued statements of support….
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…
Anti-Semites Should Not Define Anti-Semitism
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As the 2016…
Cornell West and Stealth Anti-Semitism at Harvard
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As evidence of…
Stripping Jews of their Self-Defense is What the U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Divestment Vote is About
Led by the virulent anti-Israel, often anti-Semitic group Students for Justice in Palestine, the student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently passed a resolution calling on the university to oppose anti-black racism…
Jewish Studies Professors for Palestine
Seeming to give credence to what wry Professor Edward Alexander referred to as the “explosive power of boredom” among some members of the professoriate, around 400 “professors of Jewish Studies in North and South America, Europe, and…
Pro-Palestinian student activist at George Washington University claimed Anne Frank did not die in a concentration camp
A progressive online website published a video of George Washington University students who strongly disagreed with President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism. One of the students made a statement which apparently denied that the Holocaust happened.
San Diego State University removes Nation of Islam leader from a list of suggested speakers
Outrage ensued at San Diego State University when a suggested speakers’ list included a Nation of Islam leader, after which, the university removed the leader’s name from the list.
UCLA investigates Guest Speaker’s Alleged Remarks comparing Jews to White Supremacists
A guest speaker’s alleged anti-Semitic remarks sparked an investigation at UCLA, but it appears that the guest speaker has a history of spreading anti-Zionist rhetoric on social media.