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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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published on Heterodox Stem on June 11, 2025. With (some) edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Author’s Note: This is a relatively long article for Heterodox STEM, and the theme is puzzling. What does the evolution of anti-Semitism […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on June 13, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Following the shock caused by the anti-Semitic campus riots of spring 2024, Günther Jikeli spoke up. Jikeli, an associate professor from Germany and one of […]
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System warning. This concerns the potential risks to civilians that could arise from sleeper cells within any domestic institution. Several of our universities—especially elite universities—have been protecting thousands of unknown illegal border invaders, with legal assistance services administered through their law schools, and […]
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Much of the global press is engaged in broad speculation over how Iran will respond to the United States’ recent bombing of its nuclear facilities. Coverage includes warnings about potential domestic fallout and calls for heightened vigilance against possible retaliation by Iranian “sleeper cells” already within the U.S. This overlooks, however, that mainstream partisan political […]
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The intense anti-Semitic environment that has been allowed to flourish at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) and has even been promoted by its president, Cristle Collins Judd, has rightfully drawn the attention of members of Congress, federal agencies, and the press. SLC has become an increasingly hostile place for Zionist and Jewish students, with open calls […]
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In Boston’s Beacon Hill, there are gas lamps that appear to be quaint vestiges of the city’s Victorian past. Harvard, located three miles away, is giving the district a run for its money when it comes to gas lighting. Look no further than Harvard’s honorary degree recipient, Elaine Kim from the University of California, Berkeley, […]
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On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Professor Kenneth Moss, one of the University of Chicago’s (UChicago) more prominent Jewish historians and a Yiddishist, presided over the anti-Semitism roundtable held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities in Regenstein Library. The room was nearly packed when the roundtable began, with students and faculty attending from all over […]
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“Hath not a Jew eyes? … If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” These are not the words of Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s from William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Once upon a time, the “educated” in the Anglophone West would have known this. Sadly, this is […]
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Harvard, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious university, has long set the standard in higher education. For Jewish families, gaining admission has historically been both a symbol of merit and a source of communal pride. But Harvard has also long resisted their inclusion—first through admissions quotas in the early 20th century, and now, once again, […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lucy Rendler-Kaplan | Arkay Marketing & PR Phone: 847.347.2102 | Email: [email protected] Chicago Screening of Kosha Dillz’s Documentary Canceled Just Hours Before Showtime Due to “Intimidation” — Wilmette Theatre Steps Up to Host Sold-Out Premiere Chicago, IL — May 14, 2025 — A scheduled film screening and panel discussion of Bring the Family Home, a documentary by […]
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In a development highlighting the continued aggression of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia, over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters wearing kaffiyahs and hiding their identities with masks stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library yesterday, remaining until the evening before being forced out by the NYPD. The incident came despite efforts on the part of the Columbia administration to […]
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Following a cycle more irregular than the U.S. Presidential elections, but perhaps meriting equal attention for American Jews, the 2025 World Zionist Congress Election has arrived. In a development that some are calling “the surge,” the number of slates competing in the 39th elections has increased by 69 percent compared to the 2020 elections, driven […]
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The rules were very clear. No recordings of any kind were permitted. There would not be a traditional Q&A; rather, participants could scan two QR codes, one for the first half of the day and one for the second half, which would lead participants to a page where they could submit questions for review. Alireza […]
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Higher education’s problem is more than a loss of confidence. Anti-Semitism on many college campuses is a visible symptom of far deeper problems. Anti-Semitism has been tied to the networked problems of discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), wokeness, and critical consciousness. But this is more than anti-Semitism as the canary in the coalmine phenomenon. […]
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As student visas continue to be revoked, many left-leaning news outlets and writers have expressed wariness of Trump’s motivations. They characterize the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which the Trump Administration has used as a basis to revoke student visas, as tendentious grounds for action and worse, creates a climate that echoes McCarthyism. The […]
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