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…
The terrorist massacre of eleven American Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue understandably received ample coverage in mainstream media. However, in the era of identity politics, the Pittsburgh tragedy conveniently fits the liberal narrative of racist bigotry: an anti-immigrant white male subscribing to neo-Nazi conspiracies targeting a liberal Jewish congregation.
Carrying on in the tradition of Edward Said, a comparative literature professor with no expertise in Middle East affairs who became the icon for the anti-Israel pseudo scholars who followed him, Amy Kaplan, the Edward W. Kane Professor of English…
