In March 2023, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed at a conference in France that, “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.” News outlets quoted him saying “There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language,” and asking rhetorically “Is there a…
Two years after their attacks on the administration and regents of the University of Michigan, 8 members of the Ann Arbor “Student Intifada” have finally been indicted on various charges of conspiracy and property destruction and now face hefty fines and years in prison. Predictably, most of the media is…
The Trump administration announced on March 20 that it is suing Harvard University for failing to curb its rampant antisemitism. In a 44-page complaint, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division lays out in painstaking detail how, after October 7, “Harvard fostered and continues to foster a campus climate where hostile antisemitism and anti-Israeli conduct…
Who could forget the Washington Post‘s foolish unforced error in 2019 when its obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of ISIS, called him an “austere religious scholar“? Apparently, the editors at the Washington Post forgot, because they printed an obituary for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that makes its…
On May 11, 2023, Hatem Bazian, founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), tweeted a retort to CNN anchor Jake Tapper, whining that Tapper’s “report on Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba 75 event was racist and anti-Palestinian.” Bazian must have thought he was blasting Tapper anonymously from the Jewish Voice for Peace…
Over the last two years, writers have struggled with the best way to identify what Hamas did in Israel on October 7, 2023. In my own writing, I have used the words “attack,” “assault,” “massacre,” “slaughter,” and “pogrom.” Others have opted for “incursion,” “invasion,” “atrocity,” “raid,” and “siege.” However, none…
Classes began at most American colleges and universities last week. Will a sense of normalcy return, or will students be forced to endure a third year of double-masked keffiyeh-clad hipsters, shouting “Free Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea”? On each campus, it will depend on how the…
In the span of a few years, American academics have escalated their support for the Palestinian “resistance” from rhetorical to material. For decades, academics have fostered friendly territory for radical groups and fertile ground for anti-Israel propagandists, but few have endorsed terrorism. It’s safer to massage the language, twist a…
In the four academic semesters since October 7, 2023, anti-Israel protests organized by Hamas sympathizers have overtaken some schools and tarnished the reputation of American academia. The Ivy League schools have been particularly soiled by a combination of ignorant students, radical professors, and weak administrations that coddle them. On the…
Anti-Israel student protesters have always sought convenient, effortless ways to demonstrate their hatred for Israel. In the past, this has meant trying to remove Sabra brand hummus from campus food services. Starting at DePaul University in 2010, efforts to embargo the Israeli-made food spread quickly to other campuses (University of Ottowa in 2014, Swarthmore…
When the governments of Spain, Norway, and Ireland together announced that they would recognize a state of “Palestine,” they assumed a responsibility as patrons to the putative 23rd Arab nation. It was a bold move, but it was all for show. They are out of their league and lack the ability…
News that the U.S. will build a “temporary pier” in the Mediterranean Sea to facilitate transfer of humanitarian aid to the Hamas-occupied Gaza Strip should tickle the déjà vu receptors of anyone who was politically aware at the dawn of the 21st century. After the worst terrorist attack against the U.S.…