By: Jessica Hornik Evans –  nationalreview.com – June 2024 Hamas gets the benefit of the doubt and Israel doesn’t, time after time. Something’s wrong with this picture. The Western press’s coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas has it all backward. Hamas is treated as a credible source — even a partner. It’s trusted to provide accurate information and to adhere...

Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies.

The ICC, as advised by the human-rights lawyer, equated Hamas with Israel. That’s as anti-woman as it gets.

All my adult life, I have warned people about the low moral and intellectual level of colleges and universities. This is the way I have put it: “If you send your child to college, you are playing Russian Roulette with his or her values.”  

Anti-Israel/pro-Hamas campus protests have engulfed hundreds of college campuses. But the more coastal, blue-state, and supposedly elite the campus was, the more furious the violence that sometimes followed these demonstrations.  

By: Jessica Schwalb – nationalreview.com – May 16, 2024 The main thing I’ve learned from the events of the past month is that the protest mindset disinclines students to learn from one another.  A black mask and the hood of a Choate sweatshirt helped conceal her identity. But her eyes were familiar.  “You don’t need to do this,” I said to...

We come from two sides of the political spectrum, write Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. But both of us agree that the Antisemitism Awareness Act is profoundly misguided.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 2, 2024 A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem. The recent anti-Israel protests are often portrayed as a spontaneous uprising of student indignation against the Gaza war. But we’re learning that behind the young idealists is an organized movement of leftists who want to spread disorder and...

By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2024 After Northwestern University president Michael Schill announced a set of concessions to encampment organizers Monday that included pledging to implement full-ride scholarships for Palestinian students and faculty positions for Palestinian academics, several organizations have called for Schill’s resignation. ——————– In a joint statement published Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Brandeis...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 30, 2024 For readers of a certain age, today’s protests at Columbia and other campuses echo 1968 and opposition to the Vietnam war. The kids even took over the same building at Columbia, Hamilton Hall. But the mass-protest method has become the political default for progressives when they lose the policy debate...