Rapper Macklemore, who attended the pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington D.C. over the weekend, once donned a costume that was widely panned as antisemitic. Macklemorespoke at the pro-Palestinian event where thousands called for an end to the Israel-Hamas war while chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” …
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Amid risinganti-IsraelsentimentatIvyLeagueuniversities like Harvard and Yale, someJewishparents arepledgingnot to send their children there, and commentators like Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro are encouraging it. This is misguided.The economic considerations of investing in anIvyLeagueeducation are valid, as families must weigh the financial burden against potential long-term benefits. However, boycotting these institutions …
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In the summer of 2020, nearly every sector of American society – from academia, corporations and government entities – rushed to bend the knee to a radical left-wing mob. To signal their obedience, institutions began paying fealty to the Black Lives Matter organization with funds, store window displays, and, most …
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Top Polish leaders joined members of the Jewish community for a Hanukkah celebration in parliament Thursday after a far-right lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out burning candles on a menorah earlier this week. The attendance of the president, speaker of parliament and other top legislative officials sent the …
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A retired Vanderbilt University professor and allegedly one of Harvard President Claudine Gay’s plagiarism victims has called for the immediate firing of the embattled higher education leader to “steer the university back towards sanity.” “Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Dr. Carol Swain posted Thursday on X, as part of a social …
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Earlier this month, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, a pioneer in trauma research, sparked outrage as he led a workshop on trauma at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, a retreat center in Rhinebeck, N.Y., comparing Israelis to “Nazis” and disparaging orthodox Jewish patients for choosing their “tribe” over “truth.” …
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The United Kingdom’s government and police urged organizers of a planned anti-Israel protest to cancel the event following this week’s deadly synagogue attack, saying demonstrators should “respect the grief of British Jews.” “I know that planned protests over the weekend, just a few days before the anniversary of the October …
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A group of Harvard faculty members say many students at the Ivy League university are skipping class, skimming or ignoring reading assignments, avoiding challenging discussions, and still graduating thanks to grade inflation. The New York Times reported Monday on findings released by the Classroom Social Compact Committee, a group of …
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On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …
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The suspect behind the deadly car and knife terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in theUnited Kingdomon Thursday has been identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent. Police said Al-Shamie entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in …
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