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This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that they will not allow their books to be translated…
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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, unveiled a bipartisan bill that would prohibit federal aid from flowing to universities that boycott Israel. Foxx unveiled the measure, the “Protect Economic Freedom Act,” alongside…
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ABSTRACT The failure to prevent Hamas’s slaughter of some 1,300 Israelis on 7 October 2023 – the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust – is a direct result of an emergency phone consultation three hours before the terror group’s…
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Wikipedia editors have added a section on “Palestine” to the “Genocide of indigenous peoples” Wikipedia article. The article begins by stating that “the genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, or settler genocide is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. According to certain genocide…
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Can we blame the 19-year-olds pitching tents on campus quads for imagining that, as student protesters, they are on the “right side of history?” The phrase became a mantra of spring 2024. Columbia historian Rashid Khalidi took a megaphone to his…
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Georgetown University sits on a hilltop above the Potomac. Its flagship school, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, trains America’s future diplomats, senior military officers, and intelligence operatives. Its graduates include Bill Clinton and a long list of…
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Hundreds of “Wanted” posters targeting members of the University of Rochester community were found glued to campus buildings and classrooms, according to the Department of Public Safety. The University of Rochester is located in Rochester, New York, in the northeastern United…
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Nearly a century ago, the Nazis burned the books of Jewish authors. Today, the publishing world is attempting to resurrect the exclusion of writers because of either their faith and nationality or their refusal to conform to a new intellectual…
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Filmmaker Wendy Sachs was visiting her daughter, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, last October 7 when the Hamas terrorist attack was taking place in Israel, unfolding a nightmarish scene of murder, atrocities, abduction and destruction. By October 8,…
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October’s anti-Israel protests were focused on the tragic anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 massacres, and the Israeli response that began the now year-long war. Campus protests included student walkouts, building takeovers, and vandalism at numerous universities including Columbia University, Pomona College, Tufts University, the University…
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