In their zeal to construct an academic setting that reflects the true diversity of the nation—and simultaneously attempts to redress past discrimination and exclusion— universities have created campuses that have evolved in an opposite direction….
Topic: Boycott Divestment and Sanctions
Challenging SJP Chicago’s Lies and Toxic Radicalism
In yet another revealing example of its hypocrisy and obtuseness when assessing the consequences of its own behavior, the University of Chicago’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was again whining about being…
An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of the Harvard Crimson
On April 29th, in a breathtaking display of tendentiousness and a misreading of history and fact, you published an editorial in the Harvard Crimson entitled, “In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanction and a Free Palestine,”…
McGill and Tufts Mobilize Against Israel
As yet more evidence that a core group of activist McGill students is in the thrall of radical anti-Israelism, Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) voted to adopt a “Palestine Solidarity Policy” proposed by the…
Amnesty International’s Pseudo-Scholarship
In May, while Hamas was firing more than 3000 deadly rockets from Gaza with the express purpose of murdering Jewish Israelis, members of academic communities around the world were falling over themselves to express their…
The Mendacious Apartheid Slur Against Israel
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…
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…
MESA’s Shameful Betrayal of Academic Freedom
Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted at their recent annual meeting to advance a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of…
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…
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…