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…
Topic: Hamas
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 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…
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….
Son of Close Clinton Advisor Praised Hamas Attack on an Israeli Base
Oh, Max Blumenthal…of all things you could say: At London University’s School of Economics last month, Max Blumenthal was caught on tape praising the terror group Hamas, saying its armed faction, the al-Qassam Brigades, sent an…
Anti-Semitism on California Campuses
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Gatestone Institute website. The California university system seems to have the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel. The situation that has…
Professor, who helped create Common Core Curriculum, has Lesson that Supports Hamas
Not encouraging and another reason to not trust Common Core: “A “Whose Jerusalem?” workshop created by a Boston University professor that’s been taught in many high schools in recent years and was added to the Common Core-approved national…
Muslim Students Upset at Horowitz Speech that Blasted Hamas, Hezbollah
You know, Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations, so why be offended? It’s because David Horowitz said pro-Palestinian and pro-Arab student groups have ties to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, which student groups vehemently…
Jewish Professor Put on Leave after Blasting Hamas
Uh, how is this insensitive? Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel is not. Simple as that, right? According to outraged students, no, Professor Andrew Pessin at Connecticut College just articulated hate speech against Hamas…