Shortly before Israel engaged in Operation Pillar of Defense, and college campuses erupted in a spate of anti-Israel rallies, Jonathan Spyer, a senior fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel, addressed an audience in a…
read moreAround November 9, 1938, the night of pogroms of National Socialism, several hundred Jews have been killed, synagogues were burnt, Jewish shops demolished and many thousand Jews deported to concentration camps (KZ). Everyone in Germany, ordinary Germans as well as…
read moreRonnie Fraser, a maths teacher, claims the University and College Union had repeatedly singled out Israel for condemnation at its annual conferences and created an intolerant environment in which “it is no longer tenable to be a Jew in UCU”.…
read moreIt’s nearly Halloween, celebrated here in the US largely as a secular holiday with fake spooks, pretend zombies, and other false scares that make it easy for us to laugh at our fears. Fittingly, the Israel-related media has covered a recent report…
read moreProfessor Ziva Shamir, a high-ranking researcher of literature in Israel and abroad, recently published a sharply worded essay against “the political anarchy in academia” • She says that university faculties have become breeding grounds for lecturers with radical world…
read moreRichard Cravatts’ new book, “Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel and the Jews,” concludes that across America, “it is the academics who lead the charge against Israel.” This seems confirmed by our experience at Northeastern University (NEU), where…
read moreI am sorry. We are sorry.” It was with those unscripted two sentences uttered in front of a standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 people that Emory University’s president, James Wagner, gave voice to a great wrong. But first some…
read moreNo sooner had the California State Assembly voted on and passed House Resolution 35 (HR 35) that calls upon California public universities to “increase their efforts to swiftly and unequivocally condemn acts of anti-Semitism” than the University of California Students…
read moreAs we send our daughters and sons off to a new year of college, are they entering an environment that is friendly to Jews? Is their college a place where they can be who they are Jewishly? Is what they…
read moreThe Public Eye: Interview with David Hirsh David Hirsh is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. He is the author of Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections, The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, (YIISA) Working…
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