Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on RealClear Education on October 23, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission In the years since Hamas’s October 7 attack, America’s colleges and universities have become moral barometers, and many have failed the test. At Columbia, […]
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“Should I let go of my Zionist friends?” asks an anonymous Harvard student. A Harvard Crimson editor responds: yes, the student is entitled to end those friendships. What sounds like a thoughtful meditation on friendship and conviction instead reads like a dispatch from a campus that no longer knows what truth is—or what friendship requires. […]
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Recently, Zohran Mamdani—winner of the New York mayoral race—faced opposition in a letter signed by 1,000 rabbis, cantors, and yeshiva students. These leaders of the Jewish community feared the normalization of anti-Semitism within New York and broader afield, as Mamdani has accused the Israeli government of genocide, said that he would arrest Binyamin Netanyahu were […]
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Much discourse on college campuses centers on identity politics—the idea that one’s identity, or the way one identifies, deserves attention and respect more than classical ideals of the academy. Instead of discussing philosophy, ethics, or what it means to live a good and moral life, students, egged on by their professors, engage in conversations about marginalization and who […]
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When we think of modern-day anti-Semitism in America, the images that come to mind are often the pro-Palestinian—and, by extension, pro-Hamas—protests that erupted across college and university campuses. Quads and courtyards filled with masked demonstrators in keffiyehs chanting, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” Reports of Israel history classes disrupted, staff […]
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One week ago marked the anniversary of October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and took 250 more hostage. While the hostages have since been released and initial steps toward a ceasefire are underway, tensions on college campuses, and the fear surrounding them, show no sign of easing alongside shifting geopolitics. Columbia University, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on October 3, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. After the most recent outbreak of campus anti-Semitism in America, the Israel Association of University Heads issued […]
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I knew something was fundamentally broken the day a senior colleague grabbed my shoulders and shook me frantically in the faculty dining hall after a contentious meeting of my school’s social science faculty. The assault was shocking, especially because it happened in what should have been a routine lunch gathering at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), […]
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The University of California, Berkeley, at the behest of the Trump Administration, has turned over the names of 160 students and faculty involved in complaints of anti-Semitism at that campus. The move provoked a backlash, including an open letter to the university from 600 faculty members involved with Berkeley from around the world, a letter […]
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For years, the debate has raged over what constitutes the best definition of anti-Semitism. While options abound, the three most prominent emerge from a conversation about the most widely used and accepted definition: The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, adopted by the IHRA plenary in Budapest in 2015. The Jerusalem Declaration, conceived as an […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by AEI on September 11, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Charlie Kirk is dead. The founder of Turning Point USA was fatally shot by a sniper while speaking at Utah Valley University. Authorities are investigating the killing as a politically motivated assassination. For years, Kirk warned that escalating […]
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In response to my recent Martin Center article, “The Emptiness of Antisemitism Studies,” George Leef wrote in National Review and posed the question: “Can American universities take antisemitism seriously?” His framing perfectly captured the larger stakes of the problem. My original piece—later reprinted in Minding the Campus and by the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research—showed […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Gatestone Institute on August 26, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. “The hate of the Jews,” Safra Catz, CEO of the U.S. technology giant Oracle, pointed out in 2024, “is the most ancient and continuous hate […]
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Higher education, legacy media, and the broader left have long wielded “anti-discrimination” as both philosophy and policy—not to foster debate, but to silence critics, distort established terms, and advance an anti-Western agenda. Since October 7, anti-Semitism suddenly could no longer be discussed without bringing up “Islamophobia” in the same venue. Leave it to the Ivy […]
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Monday, September 15, at 2:15 p.m. ET for what promises to be a lively discussion on anti-Semitism, violence, and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in higher education. This webinar is hosted by NAS in anticipation of the upcoming NAS DEI Anti-Semitism Study. It will explore the possibility that […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on August 22, 2025. It is cross-posted here with permission. Much has been reported lately on the influence of foreign actors such as Qatar, Iran, and China on American campuses. What seems to slip under the […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on August 18, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. President Donald Trump’s administration has condemned George Washington University for breaking the law by failing to address the harassment of Jewish students on campus. “Today, the […]
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When Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber turned on his fellow university leaders at an April panel discussion, all but accusing Vanderbilt and Washington University chancellors of “carrying water for the Trump administration,” he revealed the dangerous delusion gripping elite academia. His outburst at the Association of American Universities (AAU) meeting wasn’t just poor form; it was a […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on August 12, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Columbia University has adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism as part of its recent agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration, a university news release states. However, […]
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The latest Harvard Crimson Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey should be read not as a snapshot of opinion, but as a damning portrait of moral failure. For the second year in a row, most respondents to the survey said they did not observe “systemic antisemitism” at Harvard. In the wake of a year of […]
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Should we measure and scale anti-Semitism? Do we really need to know whether Harvard is the most anti-Semitic college in the United States or whether Egypt ranks number one in the Middle East—or is it Jordan? Anyone can see that those places are steeped in Jew-hatred, regardless of who “wins” the competition. The Netherlands records […]
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Columbia University’s recent civil rights settlement with the federal government is a watershed moment—but not for the reasons its defenders suggest. It marks the first time in recent memory that an Ivy League institution has been held accountable for allowing open hostility toward Jewish students and faculty. The fact that it took federal intervention—not moral […]
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Is there any news that is not fake news? The question is not rhetorical. Some media sources are admittedly engaged in partisan politics under the guise of news reporting, but many at least give an obligatory nod to the notion of journalism as something in principle separable from propaganda. One wonders, though, if any news […]
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As a professor with over twenty years of experience in higher education, I’ve watched with growing concern—not only at the rise of anti-Semitism on campus, but also at the shallow, reactive ways many institutions have responded. Nationwide, Jewish students are encountering levels of hostility and marginalization that would have been nearly unimaginable just a few […]
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For Americans living in the age of social media and instant clicks, Washington often feels like a nonstop, partisan version of the Jerry Springer Show. A recent Time article about the long-running show—which aired from 1991 to 2018—described its format as a place “where guests went on to discuss their deepest, darkest secrets and confront […]
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You see it in horror movies all the time when the hero’s loved one gets bitten by a vampire, or a zombie, and then slowly becomes a monster. It is such a classic feature of the genre that it borders on cliché. The plot of Bram Stoker’s Dracula revolves around it. The characters of Abraham […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by PJ Media on July 7 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The newly elected Democrat candidate for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, is a perfect exemplar of an American college graduate: an anti-Semitic communist. Mamdani, who refuses to disavow […]
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On college campuses across the United States, the chant “Free Palestine” has become a rallying cry. Many students, faculty members, and activists insist that Israel is a settler-colonial state and that the land known as Palestine has been unjustly taken from its indigenous Arab inhabitants. The left accuses Jews of colonizing a land that never […]
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Much has been written about how places like Harvard have failed to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism. The coverage is both shocking and, sadly, predictable. But what’s really struck me lately is just how willing Harvard can be to take action on anti-Semitism, so long as it means going after Jews. Harvard researcher of gender […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article has been previously published on the Front Page, the Boston Herald, and CT Insider. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is posted here with permission. “Globalize the Intifada.” This is the malevolent mantra, using the Arabic word for “uprising” or “struggle,” that Hamas supporters in America […]
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