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    Common Sense vs. Antisemitism
    F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped that the “test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” The protests over the war between Israel and Hamas that have roiled university campuses across the nation are testing our collective intelligence…
    Ryan Bangert
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    ‘Our Babies Sometimes Say Harmful Things’: Superintendents Deny Antisemitism Is ‘Pervasive’ Problem in Their Schools
    In an explosive House subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Republicans pressed the leaders of three major public school districts about their responses to antisemitic incidents.  Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., presented Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of Berkeley Unified School District in California, with a report on antisemitic incidents in her school district. “You gave us a statement in…
    Tony Kinnett | Tyler O’Neil
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    How to Stop the Campus Antisemitism Cascade
    Over the past two weeks, American college and university campuses have witnessed an explosion of antisemitic rhetoric and conduct that once had been thought to be unthinkable today. A portion of the Columbia University lawn has become a tent city to protest—or more specifically, to protest the right of Israel, and Jews, to exist. As…
    Paul J. Larkin | Lindsey Burke
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    I Went to the UPenn Campus to Address the Antisemitism Epidemic at US Colleges
    Victoria Coates, vice president of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, spoke at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday about the ongoing antisemitism directed at Jews occurring on college campuses today. She said that Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, did not start but instead…
    Victoria Coates
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    Rep. Stefanik Grills Columbia University President at Second House Antisemitism Hearing
    Columbia University and other higher institutions have entirely falled to hold antisemites accountable according to Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and other Republican lawmakers. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held its second hearing on antisemitism on Wednesday. The committee brought in Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and two board of trustee members to…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How ADL’s Partisanship Harms the Fight Against Antisemitism
    For over a century, the Anti-Defamation League has enjoyed a reputation as the preeminent Jewish organization combating antisemitism and all forms of hate. Its acronym, ADL, has “household name” status—and not just in Jewish homes. This makes its current penchant for partisanship extraordinarily dangerous for, and beyond, the Jewish community. Last December, Senate Republicans learned…
    Yaakov Menken
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    ‘Grave Concerns’: House Education Committee Demands Documents Related to Elite University’s Handling of Antisemitism
    The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is demanding documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology related to the school’s handling of antisemitism on campus, according to a Friday letter. The House committee is requesting all reports of antisemitic and discriminatory acts at the university since Jan. 1, 2021; documents outlining the school’s processes…
    Brandon Poulter
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    Antisemitism on College Campuses Has Shot Up 1,753% Since Oct. 7. Higher Education Spawned This Culture of Hate.
    The nation’s college campuses have created a climate of hate. A report released Monday by the Combat Antisemitism Movement in partnership with the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that antisemitism has exploded in U.S. higher education. The numbers are shocking, but not surprising. The report…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    19 Years Ago, the Los Angeles Times Published a Column on Antisemitism on American Campuses
    Antisemitism on American college campuses is not new. College presidents and professors didn’t begin tolerating or teaching antisemitism last Oct. 8. Students marching on behalf of the annihilation of the Jewish state, student activists tearing down posters of kidnapped Jewish children, locking Jewish students in a library at Cooper Union, and “70% of Jewish college…
    Dennis Prager
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    Rise in Antisemitism Divides Liberals
    Jews are feeling increasingly afraid and unwelcome. Last week, girls on the basketball team of a Jewish private school in suburban Hartsdale, New York, were jabbed and hit with antisemitic slurs by players from Yonkers’ Roosevelt High School. “I support Hamas, you f—ing Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled. The game had to be called off…
    Betsy McCaughey
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    The Harvard Crimson ‘Whitewashes Antisemitism by Using Israel as a Fig Leaf,’ Jewish Leaders Warn
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Orthodox Jewish leaders condemned The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University, for “whitewashing” antisemitism in a series of op-eds published at the tail end of 2023. Although Harvard’s efforts to respond to antisemitism on campus after Hamas’ terrorist attacks Oct. 7 in Israel drew early scrutiny, the university took…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
    Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy doesn’t deserve to exist. Then imagine that these people vigorously deny that they are anti-Italian. Would you believe them? Now substitute “Israel”…
    Dennis Prager
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    How Jews Are Planning for Personal Defense During the Rise of Antisemitism 
    After the Oct. 7  Hamas attack on Israel, many Jews around the world are choosing to arm themselves for self-defense, according to a panel of Jewish professionals.    “Jews tend not to own guns, and that’s very unfortunate, because if you look at our history, we could’ve used one or two throughout that time,” Karol Markowicz,…
    Lucy Gilbert
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    Campus Echo Chambers Lay Groundwork for Antisemitism
    During a hearing this week on the rise in antisemitism on college campuses, Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., said a lack of ideological diversity contributed to the hateful educational environment endured by Jewish students since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas.  He’s right.  A recent poll found that 73% of Jewish college students and about 44%…
    Sara Garstka
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    Why Are Federally Funded University Centers Pushing Antisemitism?
    The federal Department of Education spends $75 million annually on foreign language and culture educational programs in the United States, but much of that funds academic centers that side with America’s antagonists and enemies. Just look at funding to study the Middle East. Beginning Oct. 20, university Middle Eastern studies centers have co-organized a weekly…
    Adam Kissel
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    The Antisemitism of the University Double Standard
    A central feature of antisemitism is the application of a double standard by treating Jews differently from how other groups would be treated in similar circumstances. By this definition, antisemitism is a common practice at universities. My recent experience at the University of Arkansas helps illustrate the problem. When Donald Trump was elected president in…
    Jay Greene
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    The Ideas Behind the Surge of Antisemitism on America’s Campuses
    On the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Eric Schmitt delivered a speech about the recent wave of antisemitism from college students, and the ideologies driving it. Watch the speech, above, or read his remarks, lightly edited: I rise to bring attention to a problem that’s plaguing our great country. Americans and the rest of the world…
    Eric Schmitt
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    Reporting of Antisemitism, Anti-Israel Bias Gets Short Shrift From Media
    On the morning of Oct. 21, a 40-year-old synagogue president in Detroit named Samantha Woll was found stabbed to death outside her home. It appeared she had been attacked inside, and stumbled outside before being discovered the next morning.  In the wake of the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, it was inevitable…
    Steve Krakauer
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    ‘End the Occupation!’ Chants Derail House Hearing on Antisemitism
    Anti-Israel protesters briefly derailed a House Judiciary Committee hearing on free speech and antisemitism on college campuses Wednesday morning. Right after committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, swore in the witnesses, a protester shot up, holding a sign reading “Pro-Palestine [doesn’t equal] antisemitism.” The protester shouted something about “genocide,” adding, “Over 10,000 people have been…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The ‘Christian Duty’ to Call Out Antisemitism
    Roman Catholics and all Christians must push back against antisemitism, especially now because of the rising violence and threats around the world directed against Jewish people, declared Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. “This ultimately is the plea: to lean into our institutions in which there is truth and beauty and goodness and to use those…
    Lucy Gilbert
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