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‘Pro-Palestinian’ Students Arrested at Dartmouth College for Trespassing After Threat

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2023 9 Comments

“You have until the first day of the winter term to publicly address our demands and outline a plan to meet them. If you fail to do so, we will escalate and take further action”...

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Columbia University President Defends Students Who Supported Hamas

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2023 5 Comments

"We are grateful for the persistence and perseverance of the students, and their families, in the face of this harassment"...

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Jewish Students at Cornell Question Their Allegiances to Left Wing Groups After Pro-Hamas Controversies

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2023 7 Comments

"A lot of the students that come to Cornell are liberal, and I think this is making a lot of Jews that would consider themselves liberal really question that"...

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Leslie Eastman: Objectively Assessing Whether Our Colleges Have Gone Mad

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 03, 2023 31 Comments

If so, there there are signs that the madness does not have to be permanent....

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Campus Antisemitism Problem Did Not Start On October 7, It’s Been Building For 20 Years

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 02, 2023 25 Comments

My appearance on Morning Joe: "There's a phrase that collapse happens slowly then suddenly. For Jewish students on campuses at Cornell and elsewhere, we're in the suddenly phase of things. This has been building for 20 years."...

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Loudoun County Students Demand School Board Restores Traditional Bathroom and Locker Room Gender Policy

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2023 20 Comments

"And we express these concerns and they ignore us and write us off as right-wing crazies. We're not crazy."...

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Harvard Kennedy School Hosts ‘Restorative Justice’ Advocate Who Wants to Abolish Prisons

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2023 14 Comments

“What we know from the overwhelming evidence is that prison is likelier to produce more harmful outcomes”...

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Jewish Law Students Association Responds to Threats at Cornell University

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2023 2 Comments

"Unfortunately, this most recent threat is not an isolated incident."...

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Israeli Professor Says Discourse on Campus More Terrifying Than Hamas Attack

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 02, 2023 4 Comments

"the woke enlightenment on campuses has turned English departments into activist dens of political orthodoxy, a regression into fundamentalism"...

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Pittsburgh Public Schools to Instruct Teachers on ‘White Supremacy’ in Math Classes

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2023 38 Comments

"will help equip teachers with tools to 'identify, disrupt and replace' practices that perpetuate White supremacy"...

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Students at UC-Berkeley Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Prof Accused of Stalking

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2023 18 Comments

"If someone as respected as her is going through such things at Berkeley, what might the future be for the rest of us?"...

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Stanford Law Appoints Student Who Helped Organize Shoutdown of Federal Judge to Help Search for New Dean

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2023 7 Comments

"the co-president of Stanford OutLaw, the LGBT student group that led efforts in March to disrupt a Federalist Society event"...

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The DEI Complex in Higher Education is Rife With Anti-Semitism

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 01, 2023 5 Comments

“opponents of Israel seek to racialise what is a religious and national conflict to put together coalitions of students ‘of colour’ versus ‘white’ Israel and Jews”...

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Cornell Junior Arrested and Charged In Threats Against Jewish Students

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 31, 2023 68 Comments

Patrick Dai, a Cornell Junior, has been charged....

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Columbia U. Profs Sign Letter Calling Hamas Attack a ‘Military Action,’ Defending Students Who Supported it

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 31, 2023 64 Comments

“if every political avenue available to Palestinians is blocked, we should not be surprised when resistance and violence break out”...

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Why Are We Paying For Hate on Campuses?

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 31, 2023 6 Comments

"the modern American academic institution exists outside the laws of civilized mankind"...

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Satirical Novel Predicted Today’s Rise in Anti-Semitism

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 31, 2023 0 Comments

"It is becoming increasingly impossible to satirize the Hamas leadership with their dreams of killing every last Jew"...

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Prof Glenn Reynolds to Law School Dean Noticing Campus Antisemitism: “Welcome to the Party, Pal”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 31, 2023 18 Comments

"We who have been writing about this stuff warned higher education leaders for years that sooner or later there would be a reckoning, and that it would be a costly one for elite institutions in terms of lost donations, public support, and overall legitimacy. ...

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