Last year, Joe Biden gave a nationally televised speech at Howard University railing against white supremacy, calling it the “greatest terrorist threat” to the nation. Two years ago, Biden made a national, prime-time address, telling Americans that Donald Trump and MAGA Americans were the gravest threat to democracy and […]
Last year there were a lot of article about progressive Jews who suddenly realized their allies on the left saw them as the enemy. I wrote about a couple of instances here and here. So this isn’t a new phenomenon but even months later it still has the potential to shock some people. Columbia University […]
The same kind of donor revolt over campus antisemitism that roiled Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania is getting real at Columbia. New England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft said Monday he is “not comfortable supporting the university” until Columbia takes action to protect the safety of Jewish students and faculty amid rampant anti-Israel protests on […]
Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. To many Jews, it symbolizes freedom and the birth of a Jewish nation. This year, for many Jews, the holiday’s mood will be somber due to […]
Columbia’s President will be on the congressional hot seat tomorrow, following the trail blazed by three other university presidents last year, two of whom later lost their jobs. President Nemat Shafik has the advantage of at least knowing what she’s in for ahead of time. On Wednesday, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, will testify about antisemitism […]
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. -Psalm 22 What historian Robert Wistrich has called the world’s longest hatred is also the world’s oldest sickness. Jew hatred is best construed as a universal epidemic, the emotional and intellectual equivalent of a decimating plague. The difference is that those who […]
Rep. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina Republican, isn’t finished with her mission to ferret out campus antisemitism at U.S. universities. The Education and the Workforce Committee chairwoman has expanded her probe to include Rutgers University, saying she has “grave concerns regarding the inadequacy of Rutgers’ response to antisemitism on its campuses.” “Rutgers stands out for the […]
What would you do if your computer science teaching assistant lectured the class about why the President of the United States should be killed? What if he applauded Hamas’ 10/7 attacks as legitimate and opined, in class, that Hamas would be a better government for the United States than our current regime? Transfer out, I […]
Should Christians attend gay weddings? And how do we make sense of Martin Luther and antisemitism? Plus, radio host Dan Bongino’s supernatural experience. Welcome to Higher Ground With Billy Hallowell. This is the first week of our exciting new format, in which we’re bringing together some of the best journalists, TV hosts, and writers who […]
There’s an old saying that he who defines the terms wins the debate. That seems to be the case at Columbia University where both sides of the argument over anti-Semitism on campus are upset that the Task Force set up to deal with the issue has refused to accept a specific definition of anti-Semitism. A […]
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