This week, Tablet published a series of letters written by Jewish students on campuses across the country. They describe what it has been like to not go along with the flood of “anti-Zionism” which has overwhelmed these universities for several months. For refusing to join in they have been threatened, bullied and socially stigmatized. This […]
Earlier today I wrote about police stepping in to clear another pro-Palestinian encampment, this time at UPenn. But that was one of just one of three camps cleared today. Tent encampments at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Arizona, Tucson, were all dismantled in early morning raids […]
I spent the morning tweeting about this. Historian Rick Perlstein has written an instant history of the campus protests which puts the whole thing down to moral panic. It’s a well written piece in the sense that he manages to present the facts in such a way that his conclusions feel almost inescapable. At least […]
It’s starting to look like the encampment at the University of Chicago could be the next to go. The school’s president has said it “cannot continue” and police seem to be arriving on campus. The University has determined that the pro-Palestine encampment on the main quad is substantially disrupting the functioning and safety of the […]
President Biden is in a difficult position when it comes to student protests. That’s almost certainly why we’ve heard so little from him while all of this is going on all around the country. At today’s White House press briefing, AP reporter Zeke Miller asked the press secretary about it. KJP responded by bringing up […]
We’ve seen arrests at Columbia and NYU, not it sounds as if student protesters at Stanford could be next. As with the arrests on other campuses, the issue here is tents. There is an area on campus designated for protests but it is open daily from 8 am to 8 pm. By pitching tents and […]
An antisemitic protest came to the University of Texas-Austin on Wednesday. A well-organized protest began in the morning and continued well into the night. There are reports that two members of the media were arrested. I saw on social media that a local Fox affiliate’s photojournalist was taken away by police. The other report is […]
Last week Google fired 28 employees who had participated in a sit-in aimed at getting the company to end cooperation with Israel. “Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. Years before the […]
The guy who set himself on fire outside of the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial has been identified as 37-year-old Maxwell Azzarello of Florida. He was pronounced dead of his injuries this morning, so he clearly won’t be answering any of the many questions that linger after this bizarre event. His family […]
Yesterday we had the president of Columbia University testifying before congress about anti-Semitism on campus. Today, the NYPD has moved in to arrest a group of student protesters who’ve been camping out in tents as part of a pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel protest. There is truly nothing the left loves more than shouting obscenities at police. Live from […]
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