The House voted to condemn the testimony of three university presidents on campus antisemitism, leading to calls for their resignations. The presidents' comments sparked bipartisan efforts for their resignations. The treatment of antisemitism in American universities has exposed wider inconsistencies in free speech. There are concerns about the suppression of pro-Palestinian speech and the weaponization of Jewish students' anguish. The universities are facing legal risks due to the hostility and intimidation towards Jewish students. The issue of free speech, antisemitism, and pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses has sparked debates and concerns about the safety of Jewish students.
"Where the Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents dropped the ball on hate speech" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/Jesj0cQh89 https://t.co/X95eB0ZA2F
How US universities went from ivory towers to bastions of antisemitism - opinion The combination of the infusion of money from Middle Eastern countries and a social movement to promulgate the Palestinian cause found its habitat. https://t.co/8046MaUwoq
Poison ivy: Does higher education lead to antisemitism? - opinion This intellectual tragedy occurring within these “beacons of enlightened thinking” exposes serious shortfalls within Western culture and showcases dangers implicit in higher education. https://t.co/LRIirkLOpu
"Where the Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents dropped the ball on hate speech" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/7QtLu3JuYP https://t.co/fIwte7fSH5
A new survey of Jewish students found that where they attend college makes a difference in whether and to what extent they encounter antisemitism. NEW from @literarydj: https://t.co/S5myax7FFr
University presidents get schooled in free speech and antisemitism, @JRubinBlogger writes. https://t.co/Mr7hyR05XM
Faculty members at @Penn are concerned that free expression and viewpoint diversity may disappear completely from their university. Now, they're taking steps to push back against calls for censorship. And you can help. https://t.co/sMtkhh2B7k
A Jewish student reported actual antisemitic hate speech at Princeton — the school that found a way to fire Joshua Katz for speech it didn’t like — and the DEI office told him it was protected political speech and did nothing: https://t.co/jc7LVu2srD
New from me at @BulwarkOnline on the flatfooted university presidents, campus antisemitism & "wokeness," and how everyone is playing politics with freedom of speech https://t.co/09M8k9rkYz
I've been skeptical of claims that Jewish college students are so "unsafe" that they need special protections, just as I've been skeptical of that narrative for other groups. But here's a student definitely justified in feeling unsafe due to a teacher's statements on Israel: https://t.co/QFsVe8RibP
From @WSJopinion: Higher education institutions face serious legal risk as a result of the hostility and intimidation to which their Jewish students have been subjected, writes @GMandelzis https://t.co/JayjOlFX35
It’s not just Ivy League universities that have become breeding grounds for rampant antisemitism. Many state universities are just as culpable, where there are more obvious policy levers to rein them in. @Gundisalvus @jaypgreene https://t.co/0ycSRQgTaO
Pro-Hamas student hooligans have demonstrated that they can grind universities to a halt, always implying a threat of greater chaos should they meet resistance. https://t.co/Daq4UvwFnI via @tal_fortgang & Jonathan Deluty
While rebuking their school’s intellectual monoculture and intolerance of dissent, many Penn alumni demand the silencing of anti-Zionist speech in the same breath. https://t.co/3iiRYlZs28 via @HMDatMI
Though it was the genocide question that garnered the most attention, the Harvard, Penn, and MIT presidents’ shameless untruths about their campuses’ free-wheeling intellectual environments should have been the most damning. https://t.co/FSgNu0ZVUs via @HMDatMI
Letters to the Editor: College presidents showed a double standard for protecting Jewish students (via @latimesopinion ) https://t.co/8xfn9iMhdT
From @WSJopinion: How can anyone have been shocked at the antisemitic marches at universities across the country the past two months? What happened was the ugly culmination of decades of institutionalized cowardice, writes @DanHenninger https://t.co/leiI6eHcLs
This is how my own experience as an Israeli Jew allowed me to realize that the anguish experienced by Jewish students and communities has been weaponized to suppress and delegitimize pro-Palestinian voices | Opinion | @KaminskiMed https://t.co/A57SX0bAP9
DO IT: Elise Stefanik and Other Republicans Now Calling for Harvard to be Stripped of Billions in Federal Funds via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/sUNqqZjAdz
University presidents should make it clear that disruption and intimidation are not the equivalents of free speech and will not be tolerated on their campuses. https://t.co/Daq4UvwFnI via @tal_fortgang & Jonathan Deluty
Before the Israel-Hamas war, universities were already engulfed in debates over what types of speech are acceptable. For many longtime observers of the campus speech tensions, however, this moment is a dire one for freedom of expression. https://t.co/teKyvk6P4d
Historian @nfergus from @HooverInst describes how American universities are “engaged in precisely the same processes that led the great German universities down the path to hell to complicity in the Holocaust.” Read his essay on this topic here: https://t.co/f5BapiibKr https://t.co/TQ56uohzPP
The orchestrated rage against university presidents is targeting pro-Palestinian speech, not antisemitism– and it's fueled by a sinister coalition of anti-democratic bigots | Opinion | @KaminskiMed https://t.co/A57SX0bAP9
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the presidents of @Harvard and @MIT to resign and condemning the testimonies of @Penn (former) Pres. Magill, Harvard Pres. Gay, and MIT Pres. Kornbluth during the @EdWorkforceCmte hearing last week. https://t.co/63GEsNKw1a
GOP lawmakers pass resolution calling for resignations of MIT, Harvard presidents In what is being hailed as a "historic bipartisan effort," the Republican-led House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President… https://t.co/7zRFml8vQn
Of nearly 250 colleges evaluated by an advocacy group, Harvard and Pennsylvania rank as the two least hospitable schools to free speech and open inquiry. Read how the treatment of antisemitism is exposing wider inconsistencies in American universities https://t.co/pqgqNtAru2 👇
Recently you might have heard calls for an intifada on college campuses. This is what an intifada looks like: https://t.co/P5VWq7hmfa
Great and important op-ed in @haaretzcom by @KaminskiMed, an Israeli professor at Yale who served in the IDF. He warns that anti-Semitism is being exploited, and the lack of "safety" of Jewish students wildly exaggerated, all to impose US censorship: https://t.co/NChs6MOpOv https://t.co/iW4izFCQfh
Waffling on genocide is bad—but it wasn’t the biggest outrage in Congress’s hearing with university presidents. The real scandal, @HMDatMI writes, is their shameful hypocrisy on free speech. https://t.co/YEVeT72e7c
The House voted Wednesday to condemn the testimony of the three university presidents whose comments on campus antisemitism last week sparked calls for them to resign https://t.co/ISgdgk9bZI https://t.co/ISgdgk9bZI
The pro-Hamas protests have exposed the anti-Western ideology that is the sole unifying belief system on college campuses. https://t.co/FSgNu0ZVUs via @HMDatMI