December 12, 2021

Being Pro-Palestinian Actually Means Being Anti-Israel

Writing in 2009 about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the insightful Palestinian/Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh observed that, “What is happening on the U.S. campuses is not about supporting the Palestinians as much as it is about promo...

November 15, 2019

How Fordham University Lost to Radical Palestinians in Court

Coinciding with the 2019 National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) conference held in Minnesota this past weekend, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released an alarming report that exposes the toxic ideolog...

November 8, 2017

Trump's Latest Education Nominee Steps into the Maelstrom

No sooner had President Trump nominated Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under the Law, to be assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education than extremist anti-Israel groups mounted...

October 5, 2017

Betraying Academic Freedom

As the left exhibits paroxysms of moral outrage since the presidential election, the symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome are increasingly evident on university campuses.  One such instance of this irrationality was on display in August at ...

January 31, 2017

What Ben Carson Should Do at HUD

Now that Dr. Ben Carson has moved closer to being confirmed as President-Elect Trump's candidate for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the new administration can begin planning to fulfill promises outlined in a 1...

March 23, 2016

The Lie of Academic Free Speech

The disturbing campaign to suppress speech that is purportedly hurtful, unpleasant, or morally distasteful is a troubling and recurrent pattern of behavior by "progressive" leftists and "social justice" advocates from Muslim-led p...

December 1, 2015

The Pea of Victimization Under Twenty Campus Mattresses

As campuses across the country are roiled in paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, groups of black students, perhaps inspired and emboldened by the anarchistic successes at University of Missouri, have formed coalitions and presented ela...

November 16, 2014

The Return of the Malevolent Jew: the Academic Nazification of Israel

“What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?,” mused French philosopher, Vladimir Jankélévitch in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.” ...

September 9, 2012

Abbas, Temple Denial, and the Distortion of History

As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a "dialogue of the demented" in her book The World Turned Upside Down, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently continued a long tradition of attempting to de-Judaiz...

September 16, 2010

Identifying Palestinian Anti-Semitism Is Itself Racist?

No sooner had a three-day conference on contemporary anti-Semitism at Yale University ended than voices of disapproval arose over a perceived bias and even latent racism of the event. Sponsored by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study o...

March 28, 2010

Positioning Israel as the Nazi of Nations

Jews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism Theobald of Cambridge perjuriously proclaimed that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and d...

February 11, 2010

Jew-Hatred on Canadian Campuses

On some Canadian campuses, radical students have taken it upon themselves to target Jewish students with a hatred that is nominally forbidden for any others. In a country where multiculturalism has a reverent following and criticism of protected mino...

October 9, 2009

All Campus Free Speech Is Acceptable - Except About Islam

As yet more evidence that American campuses have become, in Abigail Thernstrom's apt description, "islands of repression in a sea of freedom," St. Louis University has demonstrated that that free speech on campuses begins and ends according...

February 24, 2009

Hate Speech At San Francisco State University

The fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the recent Gaza incursion may have brought a tentative peace to that region, but on campuses in California -- the veritable ground zero of anti-Israel sentiment in the academy -- the debate over the 6...

January 25, 2009

The UN's Orwellian Language on Israel

In the chorus of denunciation from much of the world community of Israel's defensive incursion into Gaza, nowhere was the feverish bleating more evident than from the UN's Human Rights Council, the perennially biased 47-member group of panjandrums th...

January 3, 2009

Protesting Against Israel or Hating Jews?

The anti-Israel demonstration of some 200 to 300 people outside the Ft. Lauderdale courthouse on December 30th , which took place on the same day in other major American and European cities, gave Palestinian supporters yet another excuse to decry Isr...

September 28, 2008

Abbas Is Mistaken in Sanctifying The Palestinian 'Right of Return'

When President Bush hosted the Annapolis conference in 2007, Israel, the Palestinians, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left hoping that some resolution to the decades-old conflict would reveal itself by the end of 2008. The likelihood of...

April 6, 2008

Boston Threatens Property Rights

In a move that may prove shortsighted and misguided, the Boston Zoning Commission, with support from City Councilor Michael Ross and Mayor Menino, recently enacted an ordinance ostensibly designed to curb the anti-social behavior of college students ...

December 8, 2007

Academic Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee

As evidence of what Professor Edward Alexander has called "the explosive power of boredom" in rousing the liberal professoriate to its ideological feet, Harvard's own Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, L....

October 17, 2007

Tissue of Lies: The Jihad Against History

In one of those ironies of questionable scholarship, just as a battle over a Barnard scholar's book about Israeli archeology had inflamed her application for tenure, heavy equipment was tearing away at the ancient crown of Jerusalem's 36-acre Temple ...

August 1, 2007

Gentrification is Good for the Poor and Everyone Else

Contrary to received wisdom among so-called progressives and community advocates, gentrification is good for poor people. A classic example of needless conflict is currently playing out in New York City.The recent certification by New York's Departme...

June 1, 2007

The High Cost of Political Satire at Tufts University

In another instance of what has become a predictable and frequent assault on conservative campus publications, The Committee on Student Life at Tufts has censured the The Primary Source, a student magazine, for running satirical pieces that offended,...

February 16, 2007

The Brand Image of Nations: Israel

The tools of brand marketing throw useful analytical light on the problems Israel faces in the court of world public opinion. Sophisticated salesmanship cannot solve Israel's fundamental problems, but the discipline of brand management has some ...

December 2, 2006

Money and Morals in Book Publishing

In 1948, one year after the death of legendary Charles Scribner's Sons editor Maxwell Perkins - editor of Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, and Wolfe - the annual Books in Print index listed 85,000 titles from only 357 book publishers. The small scale of the b...

March 9, 2006

Harvard, Lawrence Summers, & University Orthodoxy

As if observers needed yet another example of higher education's big lie, Lawrence Summers' recent ignoble loss of the presidency of Harvard University confirms the reality that, despite its claims to the contrary, academia is no longer the certain i...