SPME in the Media

The Silencing of Jewish Students

Will the Trump administration’s war against antisemitism on Ivy League campuses push Jewish students into the Republican camp, or will the young right’s growing skepticism of Israel leave Jewish students politically isolated? In my new report, “Jewish Inhibition, Conservative Freedom: New…

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Why I’m Leaving Columbia

Leaving my dream job wasn’t an easy choice, but Columbia’s latest scandal makes it crystal clear why I had to go. In texts released by the House Education and Workforce Committee, acting President Claire Shipman—then co-chair of the Board of Trustees—called the…

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Zohran Mamdani & the NY Mayoral Race

David Kaufman focuses on politics, business and culture. Along with authoring the book “Pride: 50 Years of Parades and Protests,” he has also worked as an editor at The New York Times, the Global Digital Director at Architectural Digest, and…

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How Anti-Zionism Became a Western Rite

It’s official: Jew hatred is trending among millennials and older Gen Z. On June 28, the rapper Bobby Vylan’s chants of “Death, death to the IDF” were broadcast by the BBC and enthusiastically echoed by tens of thousands of people…

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The Constitutionality of Trump’s Strike on Iran

Rona Kaufman is a teacher, scholar, and pro-Israel advocate. Professor Kaufman is an Associate Professor of Law at Duquesne University where she teaches Constitutional, Employment Discrimination, Family, and Gender law. She is developing an Antisemitism & the Law course. Her…

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