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Jun 11, 2026, 4:33 AM

Activism at Swarthmore College Proves Antizionism is Antisemitism

Recently, student activists at Swarthmore College held a pro-Hamas rally on its campus that included multiple sites of vandalism, including graffiti of inverted red triangles. Unshockingly, like many other previous incidents on different campuses, the crux of the administration’s...

May 31, 2026, 9:42 AM

Is the Israel-Palestine Conflict overrepresented in student politics?

Student Protest. Photo: Ben Weinstein

Universities are meant to be spaces for open debate, where students engage with a diverse range of political and social issues. At the same time, student politics is expected to reflect the priorities of the whole student body. In...

May 31, 2026, 7:30 AM

Is security the true concern?

LSESU Building. Photo: LSE/Nigel Stead

Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of any democratic society and is especially important at universities. When it comes to events related to Israel however, attempts are often made to halt this freedom. This has been pushed by those...

Annette Poizner

May 27, 2026, 8:36 PM

The Long Road…Through Another Civilization

For decades, Jack M. Daniel immersed himself in one of the world’s great civilizational knowledge systems. As a practitioner and scholar of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he devoted years to studying a worldview shaped by pattern, polarity, movement, balance, symbolism, and...

Mihran Kalaydjian

May 25, 2026, 7:22 AM

When Jews Are Told They Don’t Belong Again

For decades after the Holocaust, civilized society agreed on one moral line that could never be crossed again: Jews would never again be treated as outsiders in the societies they helped build. Today, that line is eroding before our eyes. Across...

Ezra Landman-Feigelson

May 14, 2026, 11:02 AM

Why I Am Not Attending My College Graduation

My peers in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (DURP at UIUC) will be attending our graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2026, and I will not be joining them. It isn’t...

May 7, 2026, 10:48 PM

Why Good People Stop Hearing Jews When Israel Comes Up

If you're Jewish and you've spent the last two years trying to explain yourself to someone you care about, and every conversation ends the same way, this is for you. You know the feeling. You sit down with a friend,...

May 7, 2026, 8:44 PM

Remembering You’re Not Alone

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Last Friday, Hillel Ontario partnered with Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto to host Shabbat dinner for over 120 Jewish and Iranian students. The following is a reflection of my comments at the event. Many of us are well aware of...

Andy Blumenthal

May 3, 2026, 6:33 PM

The Illusion of Safety Is Fading Fast

For generations, Jews in America have lived with a dangerous illusion: that comfort is the same thing as security. We built lives here, raised families here, educated our children here, and contributed to the success of this country. For...

Steven C. Wernick

May 3, 2026, 6:29 AM

Ancient Alliance: What Jewish & Persian Students Know

Not all distance is the same. There is the distance of genuine conflict — of peoples whose interests are irreconcilable, whose histories are defined by what each has done to the other. Closing it, when it can be closed at...

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