Tensions were evident everywhere as two pro-Palestinian speakers arrived Thursday night at Brooklyn College. Protesters began gathering across the street from the student center, where the college-sponsored talk was scheduled, more than an hour before the event was to start. And police…
read moreIntroduction Neo-Marxist, critical scholarship has acquired a substantial following in faculties of the liberal arts (the humanities and social sciences) in Israeli universities. Known as post Zionism, it asserts that Zionism is a colonial-imperialist movement and that its progeny, the State of…
read moreAbove all, there is outright slavery. The dirty little secret is finally out. Even Robert Fisk, whose anti-Israeli credentials endear him to critics of the Jewish state, wrote in an article in The Independent, on May 7, 2012, of the pious…
read moreIn early May, I wrote in this space about the hidden underbelly of Israel detractor campus activity, and how our community overlooks this activity at our peril. I mentioned at the time that Israel detractors had managed to slip anti-Israel resolutions…
read more“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,” according to both Ecclesiastes 3:1 and, in more recent history, the Byrds. So, when is a good time to protest the Jewish state of Israel?…
read moreAmerican Jewry’s umbrella organization for domestic issues has called on Congress to expand a key provision of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect students from discrimination on the basis of religion. But the nascent effort has already raised…
read moreA new, Washington DC-based organization will advocate for the rights of Jewish higher education, to change the culture, and make it unacceptable to engage in anti-Semitic behavior,” said Marcus. Marcus’s organization — which is pending 501(c)(3) status —…
read moreNEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee repudiated a statement from a staffer who criticized efforts to use federal civil rights law to respond to anti-Israel activism on campus. In an e-mail, the AJC’s executive director, David Harris, called…
read moreNEW YORK (JTA) — The Zionist Organization of America has filed a complaint against Rutgers University alleging that the school fostered a hostile environment toward Jewish students. The complaint requests that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights…
read moreAnti-Semitic bullying is happening on college campuses all over the country, but one group in New Jersey is trying to equip incoming freshmen with knowledge needed to cope. (Photo: YouTube) TEANECK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A college campus is a place…
read more
