My latest in PJ Media: For quite some time, it has been obvious that our nation’s colleges and universities are no longer institutions of higher learning, but radioactive wastelands of leftist indoctrination and antifa recruitment. Resounding confirmation of this came Tuesday from the University of Michigan, when a Jewish student was condemned for telling the […]
Ben Gerstein’s Craven Apology – When He Had It Right the First Time (Part 3)
And what more can Ben Gerstein, President of the Student Government Council at the University of Michigan, accuse himself of to satisfy his critics on the Council who will make sure that from now on he expresses all the right opinions about Israel and the Palestinians? He hasn’t suffered enough to make up for his […]
Ben Gerstein’s Craven Apology – When He Had It Right the First Time (Part 2)
Ben Gerstein now uses uncritically – in his mea-maxima-culpa apology — the term “Palestinian people.” Does he have any idea where the term comes from? After the Six-Day War, when the Arabs realized that they would not be able to conquer Israel militarily, they moved instead to a propaganda effort to persuade the world that […]
Ben Gerstein’s Craven Apology – When He Had It Right the First Time (Part 1)
In the intellectual degringolade that characterizes campuses today, a particularly disturbing example comes from the University of Michigan. The story is here. The student government at the University of Michigan has passed a resolution condemning its president for remarks critical of the Palestinians he made as a high school senior. The final vote of the […]
U of Michigan: Jewish student is censured as “Islamophobic” for accurate pro-Israel statements, despite apologizing
He made the statements while in high school. What kind of star chamber is the University of Michigan student government running, that they would censure this young man for statements he made before he even got there, and for which he has apologized? The Leftist totalitarians are now demanding that one march in ideological lockstep […]