anti-semitism

‘Globalizing the Intifada’ Targets Western Civilization

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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The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism in the U.S.

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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The Emptiness of ‘Anti-Semitism Studies’

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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DHS Warns of Domestic Terror Threat—Universities Could Be Ground Zero

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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Are Iran’s Biggest Fans in Our Universities?

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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SLC President Claims ‘Common Ground’ Is for Everyone—Jewish Students Know It’s Not

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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After Years of Anti-Asian Bias, Harvard Crowns Anti-Semitic Asian Professor with Honorary Degree—Right After Denying Anti-Semitism

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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The Chicago Principles Took a Sick Day at UChicago’s Anti-Semitism Roundtable

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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Why Did Elias Rodriguez Murder Two Israeli Embassy Staffers? His Chicago English Department May Hold the Answers.

“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 Sets the Tone—And It’s Off-Key for Jews

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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Press Release: Chicago Theater Cancels Jewish Filmmaker’s Campus Anti-Semitism Doc Hours Before Showtime Citing ‘Intimidation’

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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Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm Columbia’s Butler Library, Clash with NYPD Amid Anti-Semitism Crackdown

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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World Zionist Congress Election 2025—Remember Campus Anti-Semitism

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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UN Rapporteur’s Genocide Gambit at UChicago Forum

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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Professor AI: The Least-Bad Solution to Combating Campus Anti-Semitism

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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Deporting Pro-Hamas Mouthpieces is Good and Legal

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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Sneaking Anti-Semitism and DEI? University Libraries Host Fugitives

President Trump’s Department of Education (ED) has targeted colleges and universities that fail to protect Jewish students’ civil rights and others that embrace “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Some universities have bowed to at least some of his concerns, others have vowed to fight him, and still others are trying to look compliant while […]

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SJP’s ‘Week of Rage’ Fails to Sway Public Opinion on Hamas and Israel

Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by RealClear Education on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those unsupportive […]

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The Anti-Semites and Their Betrayal of Conservatism

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Doc Emet Productions on April 8, 2024. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. As a young man, I was invited to dinner at the home of a senior professor at a respected liberal arts college. A man of conservative views and polished […]

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Sarah Lawrence Must Answer to Congress—And Rightly So

In the winter of 2024, the U.S. Department of Education announced that an investigation is underway at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) over its anti-Semitic environment. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrote in a December 23 letter that it will examine “whether the College failed to respond to alleged harassment of students […]

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Anti-Semitism in Universities Is Uncivil and Incompatible with Sound Education

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on PJ Media on March 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The ideology of “social justice,” encompassing both critical race theory, extreme gender theory, and queer theory, has become the main administrative tool of universities, […]

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A Jewish Professor Claims Trump’s Fight Against Anti-Semitism is Insincere—But Leaves Out Key Facts to Make His Case

In an article for Slate, Joel Swanson, a newly hired professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), selectively presents only part of the story regarding the college’s response to the wave of anti-Semitism that swept SLC following Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel. No surprise to me, Swanson uses the piece to argue […]

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The Higher Ed Swamp Is Being Drained—But It’s Nowhere Near Empty

Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, sign up directly by entering your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the […]

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Barnard’s Leaders Have Let Anti-Semitic Mobs Take Control

Barnard College was finally showing signs of responsible leadership when it expelled two students for participating in an egregious, anti-Semitic disruption of a class on modern Israel at Columbia earlier this semester. But after almost two years of anti-Semitic chaos on campus, the college’s leaders have evidently still not learned their lesson. When protesters who were […]

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A Legal Shootout Is Brewing at Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism, Trump, and the United Auto Workers Union

Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering speech to Europeans that questioned whether the other half of the West adheres to a commitment to free speech or is embracing censorship and a suicidal embrace of mass migration. In Europe, these issues have been at the forefront of the leadup to Germany’s election. […]

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The Red-Green Alliance and Its War on the West

Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published PJ Media on February 7, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. No, the Red-Green coalition is not a political alliance between members of the Republican Party and the environmental catastrophists of the Green Party. Republicans do not accept that […]

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The Return of Campus Encampments: Ideological Echo Chambers

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Times of Israel on February 18, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. “It is time to escalate for Palestine,” wrote Bowdoin College’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In early February, 50 SJP students occupied Bowdoin’s Smith Union, the […]

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Called a ‘Pest’ for Exposing Anti-Semitism at Sarah Lawrence

I recently published an article detailing the pervasive anti-Semitic environment at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), where I have been a faculty member for the past fifteen years. In it, I presented troubling facts about the rise of anti-Semitism on the New York-based campus and shared my perspective on SLC’s handling of these issues. Rather than […]

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Deporting Radicalism: Trump’s Crackdown on Anti-Israel Campus Protests

On February 1, reports emerged that Liu Lijun, a Chinese national studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, is facing deportation after participating in anti-Israel protests on campus. Liu’s case marks one of the first applications of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 29. This order targets—among other things—foreign students […]

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Hey, Sarah Lawrence College: You’ve Been Sarah Lawrenced

America’s legacy elite colleges continue to lose reputation in the public eye. Today’s example is Sarah Lawrence College, where intolerance for heterodoxy is part of the culture. Fortunately, civil rights have been vindicated, if only in a small way, at the college. The story begins in October 2018, when professor Samuel Abrams described the college […]

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