The anti-Israel indoctrination of high school students in Newton, Massachusetts continues. A teacher inculcates students with a deeply flawed history of the Arab-Israeli conflict in a senior elective class, while the superintendent assures parents that all is well.
When it comes to restoring academic quality and combating antisemitism, Harvard’s actions continue to defy its lofty promises. Consider just the most recent example: the appointment of Shaul Magid as a “Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence” at Harvard Divinity School.
Phrases like “pro-Palestinian advocacy” and “anti-Palestinian racism” have become devoid of meaning. They are increasingly being used in the media, educational, and advocacy worlds to describe speech and conduct that have little, if anything, to do with the plain meaning of the words.
One can legitimately question the wisdom and even the motivations of government officials exerting financial pressure on universities over their handling of antisemitism. But the toxic culture that has burgeoned at Harvard, and the university’s failure to take meaningful steps to reverse it, discredit Alan Garber’s self-serving declarations that he can address the problem without external intervention. As the last year and a half illustrated, the same is true for many of the nation’s top universities.
After CAMERA's intervention, a New York Times headline that had claimed a performance by the singer Kehlani was cancelled due to her support of Palestinians was amended, and now acknowledges that it was because student concerns over her antisemitism.
CAMERA did not target a pair of Georgetown University "academics" for their speech; we targeted them for their conduct on behalf of and in support of a terrorist organization. It is this simple fact which the ACLU goes to such lengths to obfuscate. Working for and aiding terrorists is not a civil liberty. On the contrary, it is a very real threat to our freedoms.
At Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, students are being fed a dogma in service of a sectional interest which makes no secret of its desire to control the pursuit of knowledge.
The music magazine has improved its reporting on Gaza casualties, but its account of recent events at Columbia University quotes four anti-Israel students and no pro-Israel students.
Mapheze Ahmad Yousef Saleh is as a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She also happens to be the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who served as a top adviser for the terrorist organization Hamas under Ismail Haniyeh’s leadership. In fact, Mapheze herself has worked for the designated terrorist organization.
Napoleon Bonaparte, himself a giant of history, famously remarked that “history is a set of lies agreed upon.” Centuries later, the American Historical Association is on the precipice of taking the French revolutionary’s quip literally.
