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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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Jonathan Brown, a tenured Georgetown University professor who came under fire last month for a social media post in which he called for Iran to conduct a “symbolic strike” on a U.S. military base, has been placed on leave and removed as…
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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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Shai Davidai, an outspoken Israeli professor at New York City’s Columbia University, said on Wednesday that he was leaving the school and that a Columbia investigation against him had been closed. Davidai became a prominent and controversial advocate for pro-Israel…
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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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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 shape of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and antisemitism was changed again in June by deadly attacks on Jews by “free Palestine” terrorists, by the Israeli and American attack on Iranian nuclear and regime facilities, and by…
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The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) organization condemned the US bombing of nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the weekend, threatening that the American government will be deposed. The anti-government comments came one day after…
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Georgetown University administration said it was “appalled” after a prominent faculty member called for Iran to conduct a “symbolic strike” on a U.S. military base in a social media post on Sunday. “We are reviewing this matter to see if…
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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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