US campuses are dominated by the Left. The Left’s hatred for Israel and increasingly open antisemitism comes out in this campus newspaper coverage.
“College Newspapers Are ‘Obsessed With Israel’ and Produce ‘Extremely Biased’ Coverage, Watchdog Says,” by Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon, September 20, 2022:
U.S. campus newspapers are “obsessed with Israel,” publishing nearly 1,500 articles about the country since 2017—and much of the coverage is “extremely biased” against the Jewish state, according to a study by a college watchdog group.
Over the past five years, campus newspapers across the United States published at least 1,450 articles about Israel, and a plurality of the stories were slanted against Israel, according to the Alums for Campus Fairness study, which was shared with the Washington Free Beacon.
Over one-third of the articles “present[ed] the Jewish state in a negative way,” while 17 percent “provided a positive view of the country.”
The findings come as universities are experiencing a spike in anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism and reflect a growing climate of hostility against Jewish students and campus groups….
The study looked at 75 college newspapers. It found that small liberal arts colleges “exhibited the most anti-Israel bias” while larger public universities produced the most Israel-related content. The schools with the highest percentage of anti-Israel stories were Haverford, Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, and Oberlin—although these colleges published fewer articles on the topic than the larger universities….
Infidel says
I know that campus papers are Leftist, but why do events outside the school concern them at all? Can’t they just be content in making their school communist? “From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs?” (Yeah, yeah, I know it’s horrible grammer, but I’m using ‘their’ as a singular possessive pronoun to reflect the current woke gender as well)
somehistory says
r tlaib, seems to be making some of her fellow dems somewhat angry with her This time, it’s her antisemitism
“Former DNC Chair Schultz Calls Democrat Tlaib ‘Antisemitic’ Over Remarks On Israel”
Source; Forbes
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-dnc-chair-schultz-calls-democrat-tlaib-antisemitic-over-remarks-on-israel/ar-AA1263DQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=
gravenimage says
US campus newspapers ‘obsessed with Israel’ and ‘extremely biased’ against the Jewish state
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This was bad when I was a university student in the late 1970s and early ’80s–but it is *far* worse now.
milo minderbinder says
gravenimage says,
This was bad when I was a university student in the late 1970s and early ’80s–but it is *far* worse now.
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The 70’s, the Vietnam Era and all that that era entails.
It’s disgraceful, how the young men who served their country, were treated on their return to the USA. Mocked and ridiculed, spit on, etc.
What choice did these young men have? The list below is not in priority order, nor all inclusive, I’m just thinking out loud.
1. Get a deferment by enrolling in college
2. Find a job that would allow the individual to be exempt from the draft
3. Enlist voluntarily
4. Wait to be drafted
5. Refuse the draft and go to Jail
6. Flee to Canada
Brannon Howse’s Documentary, Brain Washed America, is a must see.
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/brainwashed-america-parts-one-two
Gary Fouse says
Hardly a shocker since college papers are so leftist and politically correct, they would make the NY Times blush.
The pro-Palestinian propaganda machine on our college campuses is well-oiled and well-funded. They have convinced so many mushy minds that Israel is the bad guy here.
While I was teaching part-time at UC Irvine, I attended most all the pro-Palestinian speaking events. I saw and heard vicious anti-Semitismic speeches that went far beyond any legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies. Not once do I recall seeing any negative reporting on these speeches from the campus newspaper, New University.