By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew...

I began writing this column on Dec. 7, a date that, as President Franklin Roosevelt said, “will live in infamy.”

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 10, 2023 The lighting was proposed for Dec. 10 at the 2nd Sundays Art and Music Festival. But plans were cancelled. In messages to Rabbi Mendy Heber, festival organizer Shirley Vermillion said the organization decided that it couldn’t approve the lighting because it didn’t “want to make it seem we’re choosing a...

You may believe that Israel’s response to October 7 is disproportionate. You may even believe that, on some level, the IDF is guilty of war crimes.

With Hanukkah underway, we’re happy to announce a win in a major case involving several Orthodox Jewish congregations in Airmont, New York. After decades of harassment from local officials, our clients will now be able to worship freely.

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – December 6, 2023 It has come to this. The president of the United States and the governor of Pennsylvania issued statements this week denouncing a protest outside a falafel restaurant in Philadelphia. Needless to say, the protesters were pro-Palestinian and the owner of the restaurant, Goldie, is Israel-born. The protesters’ chant was also predictable:...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – December 7, 2023 They must have felt good about themselves and their performance in the moment. The smirking condescension to which the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology treated a House committee this week suggests that the display of moral vacuity they put on was practiced....

Gerrymandering Jews into an ‘oppressed’ class won’t save universities from a malevolent ideology.

Harvard’s University’s graduate-student union recently approved by a vote of 402 to 210 a resolution denouncing what it called “the murderous Israeli regime” and the “ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.”