December 12, 2021

Being Pro-Palestinian Actually Means Being Anti-Israel

It is the pro-Palestinians who are singularly responsible for the majority of hostility on campuses today, not some other, vaguely defined and most invisible group of white supremacists, fascists, or right-wing lunatics that haunt the liberal mind

November 15, 2019

How Fordham University Lost to Radical Palestinians in Court

Fordham's instincts were well founded in repelling Students for Justice in Palestine from its campus. A judge disagreed.

November 8, 2017

Trump's Latest Education Nominee Steps into the Maelstrom

Kenneth Marcus is now poised to take on the World's Oldest Hatred, with pro-Palestinian organizations baring their teeth.

October 5, 2017

Betraying Academic Freedom

University professors support academic free speech, but only for those whose views they like.

January 31, 2017

What Ben Carson Should Do at HUD

The Trump administration plans to revitalize the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a number of ways.

March 23, 2016

The Lie of Academic Free Speech

Bullies and activists are doing their level best to silence the opposition on university campuses when it comes to the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

December 1, 2015

The Pea of Victimization Under Twenty Campus Mattresses

Campus totalitarians attempt to reeducate their racist peers

November 16, 2014

The Return of the Malevolent Jew: the Academic Nazification of Israel

This summer’s Israeli incursion, Operation Protective Edge, provided anti-Semites and loathers of the Jewish state with resurgent justifications for assigning the epithet of Nazi on the Jews yet another time.

September 9, 2012

Abbas, Temple Denial, and the Distortion of History

A particularly galling aspect of the Palestinians' habit of debasing history to advance a political goal.

September 16, 2010

Identifying Palestinian Anti-Semitism Is Itself Racist?

The assertion that academic freedom and free speech are cardinal principles in Palestinian culture is a novel, if not delusional, way of assessing the situation.

March 28, 2010

Positioning Israel as the Nazi of Nations

The medieval blood libel still appears as part of Arab world's vilification of Jews -- now transmogrified into a slander against Israel.

February 11, 2010

Jew-Hatred on Canadian Campuses

Is assaulting Jewish students on Canadian campuses now considered legitimate criticism of Israel?

October 9, 2009

All Campus Free Speech Is Acceptable - Except About Islam

Exercising the "heckler's veto,"

February 24, 2009

Hate Speech At San Francisco State University

What is and isn't hate speech will astound you.

January 25, 2009

The UN's Orwellian Language on Israel

In few places where public diplomacy and negotiations are conducted is there such visible moral incoherence and hypocrisy as regularly occurs in UN Human Rights Council sessions

January 3, 2009

Protesting Against Israel or Hating Jews?

Recent demonstrations over Gaza show that if you scratch the surface of an Israel-hater long enough, you will eventually find a Jew-hater lurking below.

September 28, 2008

Abbas Is Mistaken in Sanctifying The Palestinian 'Right of Return'

Palestinian chairman Mahmoud Abbas is still adamant that "Palestinian refugees must have the right to return to their homeland."

April 6, 2008

Boston Threatens Property Rights

In a move that may prove shortsighted and misguided, the Boston Zoning Commission recently enacted an ordinance ostensibly designed to curb the anti-social behavior of college students.

December 8, 2007

Academic Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee

What Professor Edward Alexander has called "the explosive power of boredom" in rousing the liberal professoriate to its ideological feet.

October 17, 2007

Tissue of Lies: The Jihad Against History

Israel's archeological heritage is imperiled, as enemies of the Jewish state seek to erase or obscure Judaism and replace it with a Muslim historical narrative which predates a Jewish one.

August 1, 2007

Gentrification is Good for the Poor and Everyone Else

Contrary to received wisdom among so-called progressives and community advocates, gentrification is good for poor people.

June 1, 2007

The High Cost of Political Satire at Tufts University

In another instance of what has become a predictable and frequent assault on conservative campus publications, The Committee on Student Life at Tufts has censured the The Primary Source, a student magazine

February 16, 2007

The Brand Image of Nations: Israel

The tools of brand marketing throw useful analytical light on the problems Israel faces in the court of world public opinion.

December 2, 2006

Money and Morals in Book Publishing

In 1948, one year after the death of legendary Charles Scribner's Sons editor Maxwell Perkins - editor of Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, and Wolfe - the annual Books in Print index listed 85,000 titles from only 357 book publishers. The small scale of the book trade at that time meant that book publishers continued their tradition of being gatekeepers of our culture and knowledge; publishing, it was thought, was a calling for those for whom commerce was a secondary consideration

March 9, 2006

Harvard, Lawrence Summers, & University Orthodoxy