Academic left
December 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This highly impressive MIT graduate student details the atmosphere of anti-Semitism that characterizes that campus. You might think that after all the unwelcome attention MIT has gotten, its authorities would at least try to address the problem. But no: Extraordinary video in which a Jewish student highlights the extent of antisemitism on campus at @MIT. Elite universities and their DEI bureaucracies have failed us. pic.twitter.com/X2lX9sMw8l — Ed Leon Klinger (@edleonklinger)
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December 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Reportedly, the University of Pennsylvania is firing President Liz Magill, following her House committee testimony: The University of Pennsylvania is expected to ask its president, Liz Magill, to resign Friday over growing outrage at her failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people — a move celebrated by billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who said she would be “one down.” The Ivy League school’s board of
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December 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Dave Portnoy, the founder and owner of Barstool Sports, is a social media giant, with millions of followers across various platforms. He is also a Jew, and he was outraged by the inept performance before a House committee of university presidents who couldn’t say that calling for the genocide of all Jews would violate their universities’ policies. In hindsight, it was a pivotal moment that opened many eyes to the
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December 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Today the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT were summoned before a House committee for questioning about anti-semitism on their campuses. I haven’t watched the whole testimony, but this clip is getting a lot of attention. Elise Stefanik asks each president whether calling for genocide of the Jews would violate that school’s code of conduct with regard to bullying or harassment. None of the witnesses had a clear answer to
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December 1, 2023 — Steven Hayward
I was fortunate yesterday to take in part of a two-day conference at AEI in Washington DC in honor of Princeton’s Prof. Robert P. George (Robbie to his friends, but still “Professor George” to me and most other mortals), and in particular a retrospective of his early book published thirty years ago, before he had achieved tenure in Princeton’s political science department, entitled Making Men Moral. It set out a
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November 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
This week’s peak demonstration of leftist anti-Semitic madness comes to us courtesy of the Oakland City Council, where a resolution endorsing a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war was met with this parade of insane people: Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction… pic.twitter.com/r7aTb2mkrQ — Yashar Ali 🐘
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November 17, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Jews are just a warm-up. Many people have made this observation, but this is a nice data point: earlier this year, Minnesota’s legislature enacted a statute that requires “Ethnic Studies” to be incorporated into every single class from kindergarten through 12th grade. Including math and biology. And Minnesota is not alone. The “Ethnic Studies” dodge started in California, but it is expanding across the country. And “Ethnic Studies” is
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November 15, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Two weeks ago we were shocked to hear of Jewish students who had to lock themselves inside the library at the Cooper Union in Manhattan to protect themselves from a mob beating on the doors and windows of the library during a “protest” of Israel. Can anyone say that these were merely “performative” expressions, and not a genuine threat of violence? Yesterday at Arizona State University a group of Jewish
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November 12, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Some of the worst anti-Semitic campus outbursts of recent weeks have been at MIT. Pro-genocide activists physically prevented Jewish students from attending classes, and refused to disperse when ordered to do so by university officials. Normally you would assume that a student who engaged in such barbaric conduct would be expelled. Yet MIT has treated its anti-Semites with kid gloves. Why? MIT’s President Sally Kornbluth has now made a statement
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November 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Earlier today, Steve noted that it is Springtime for Hitler at MIT. (Penn, too.) Here’s one more: what happened in an MIT math class this morning: This is a math class this morning at @MIT. This is the state of learning and ‘free speech’ at our top universities. It would not be happening without a failure leadership at MIT. Imagine being a student who borrowed $250k to attend MIT or
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November 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
MIT is not the only “elite” school where Jews are unwelcome. At the University of Pennsylvania, anti-Semites put on a light show, projecting hate messages onto the walls of buildings: Heinous antisemitic slogans were beamed onto buildings at the University of Pennsylvania in the latest disturbing incident at the Ivy League institution — as the school faces a civil rights complaint accusing it of being “a magnet for antisemites.” Multiple
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November 10, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The headline comes from a David Burge (“Iowahawk”) Tweet about this letter from Jewish students about events on campus at MIT yesterday: To all students at MIT, Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA [Coalition Against Apartheid, apparently]. This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in
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November 4, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Bill Ackman is one of the most successful Wall Street investors of our age. He is also a double alumnus of Harvard, having received has A.B. and MBA from Harvard. He has sent the following letter to Harvard’s disgraceful, affirmative action president Claudine Gay—it is long, but worth it: November 4, 2023 Dear President Gay, I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have
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November 3, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Further to yesterday’s item about the two dozen Big Law firms writing to law school deans telling them to get a grip on anti-Semitism, the Wall Street Journal today reports details on the origin of the letter: The letter was the idea of Joe Shenker, senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, who was in Israel on Oct. 7. He tells us that after the American Lawyer wrote about his
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November 2, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Earlier today, students at Columbia University walked out on a two-hour lecture by Hillary Clinton. I can’t blame them for that, although I admire Hillary’s stamina. But the students walked out for a different reason than I would have: Thirty students walked out of Hillary Clinton’s class at Columbia University to “shame” the Ivy League school for how they perceive it allowed its students who signed an anti-Israel statement to
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November 2, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Yesterday I spotted on social media the letter shown below from two dozen top law firms (“big law,” as they are sometimes called) addressed to law school deans telling them to get a grip on the anti-Semitism that they have let run rampant at their schools. I was not able to verify its authenticity so I refrained from posting it, but the New York Times reports on it this morning,
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November 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
As you probably have read, viciously anti-Semitic threats were made against Jewish students at Cornell by an anonymous person. The apparent perpetrator has now been arrested: Patrick Dai, of Pittsford, posted threats to shoot up a multicultural dining room on campus to an online discussion site, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said in a news release. *** Dai, a junior, also called
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