George Washington University has announced the establishment of a Center for Jewish Education whose priorities include “addressing the pressing issue of antisemitism on American college campuses.” The prestigious institution has good reason to be concerned about campus antisemitism, but whether this…
In his magisterial biography of Winston Churchill, the late Martin Gilbert described the visit Churchill paid Gaza in 1921. Gaza at that time had a population of about 15,000 Arabs as well a little less than 100 Jews, the tiny…
In searching for, in the words of Mark Twain, history’s rhymes, the Biden administration’s strategy to combat anti-Semitism, unveiled May 25 to enthusiastic applause, shares a seminal stanza with the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, who sought to…
Originally from Pakistan, Noor Dahri is the founder and executive director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism, a UK-based think tank. He has authored and edited five books and will soon publish IDF: Israel Defence Forces – Ground Forces, Operations,…
It is rather a challenging time these days for committed, devoted Jewish college students on liberal campuses. They don’t know how to fight, only to defend and whine, and their life experiences in being “nice” have left them utterly unprepared…
Last year I asked if scientists were more valuable to the anti-Israel BDS movement than Middle East studies and English professors. Judging by the emergence of one prominent scientist to a leadership position in the movement, the answer is no. George…
The excuse is given by the woke Left all the time: “We only are against Zionism, not against Jews. It’s not anti-Semitism; it’s only anti-Zionism.” The response to that claim often gets into stratospheres of theory and politics that completely…
New York University is no longer content to be the second most important anti-Zionist campus in New York City. Columbia University, with its Center for Palestine Studies, has first place locked up. But lately my alma mater has accelerated its…
June was a long, arduous month dominated by a single story: Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and destruction of state and national monuments, or at least those commemorating historical figures that do not live up to 21st-century standards of decency….
Students at American universities have long experienced public shaming and cyberbullying by their peers. Now their own faculty and administrators are attacking them. Campus professors, administrators, and graduate student instructors publicly smeared UMass Amherst student Louis Shenker as a dangerous…