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Jul 6, 2026, 1:22 PM

Good Ideas Are Worth Fighting For

Most nations begin with power. Throughout history, kings, warlords, dynasties, and autocratic regimes have built nations by seizing thrones, consolidating control, claiming territory, conquering land, and calling it a country. Nations measured themselves by the whims of kings, the ambitions...

Jul 6, 2026, 3:12 AM

We Are Still In It: Diaspora Jews & the Grief that Changed Shape

We Are Still In It: Diaspora Jews & the Grief That Changed Shape

For many Jews in the diaspora, the world has moved on faster than our nervous systems have. The headlines have shifted. The public outrage has been redistributed. The language has changed. But for many of us, the rupture has...

Lorene Shirel Otero Lambert

Jun 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

‘From Screens to Campuses: How Online Antisemitism Became the Norm in France’

On a Paris university campus, a WhatsApp poll on the first year's economics students' class simply asked: “Juifs: pour ou contre” in translation, “Jews: For or Against?” - a chilling sign of how antisemitism has quietly become routine for...

Jun 22, 2026, 12:14 PM

My School District Opened Its Doors to CAIR—and Parents Were Kept in the Dark

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I did not learn about my school district's relationship with CAIR from the district itself. I learned about it from an investigative report. If this could happen in one California school district with little or no public disclosure, parents have...

Jun 9, 2026, 5:50 PM

I had to choose between my Zionism and my disability advocacy

Protest encampments may no longer block our path to class, but Jewish students like me who are attached to Israel are still barred from full participation in campus life

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 8, 2026, 6:59 PM

When Activism Cannot Hear Palestinians

The Activism That Cannot Hear Palestinians The contemporary Western activist often does not hear Palestinians first. He hears the echo of his own redemptive script. “Free Palestine” then functions not as a political demand, but as a ritual formula through...

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...

Sara T. Friedman

May 20, 2026, 4:19 AM

The kids are alright

Noam Bettan from Israel arrives on stage ahead of the dress rehearsal for the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

On campus, online, and even at Eurovision, a new generation of young Jews is meeting hatred not with fear, but with pride and faith

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...

Andy Blumenthal

May 10, 2026, 4:43 AM

Israel Must Win the Information War

For more than three thousand years, the Jewish people have maintained an unbroken connection to the Land of Israel. Long before the emergence of the modern international system, Jewish life was rooted in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberias, and across...

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