Column
The world’s authoritarians are delighting in the opportunity to wield the language of human rights in the faces of gullible Westerners.
A bizarre coalition of left- and right-wingers opposes a measure to mandate the enforcement of Title VI protections for Jewish students on campus. They’re both dead wrong.
Regardless of one’s permanent residence, the very idea of an inhospitable “goldene medina” is unsettling, to put it mildly.
Giving in to the mob’s demands for antisemitic divestment from Israel is further confirmation that some schools have become hostile environments for Jews.
We can’t let policy be dictated by the feelings of the families and friends of the hostages. Take the case of Gilad Shalit, for example.
The presence of Jews among those demonstrating for Hamas and supporting the surge in antisemitism doesn’t vindicate the “pro-Palestine” cause.
Nicholas Murray Butler’s spirit lives on—in both the approach of the current appeasing, spineless and incompetent administration, and in the fetid antisemitic beliefs of the student protesters.
“What is important now is for all of us, all of us who … cherish our values and our civilization to stand up together and to say: Enough is enough,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.