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 […]
Muslim migrant from Iran, a University of Michigan visiting scholar, stole and sent confidential tech data to Iran
“Amin Hasanzadeh, an Iranian military vet…” All right. So Amin Hasanzadeh is a veteran of the military of the regime that forces its people to scream “Death to America” in mosques every Friday. When he first attempted to enter the United States, was any effort made to determine his loyalties or perspective? Almost certainly not. […]
University of Michigan hosts Muslim advocates of “Palestinian” jihad two days after Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
In academia, Islamic antisemitism has at this point become so much a part of the atmosphere that these institutions can’t possibly be self-critical enough to realize what they’re aiding and abetting. To do so would go against their core principles. “UMich hosts anti-Israel activists two days after synagogue massacre,” by Autumn Price, Campus Reform, October […]
U of Michigan: Muslim student who faked anti-Muslim hate crime won’t be charged
Back in November, a University of Michigan Muslim student reported that she was “accosted by a white man who told her to remove her hijab or he would set her ablaze with a cigarette lighter.” So eager was she to be the face of an “Islamophobic” attack by a white supremacist that she invented the […]
Police: Muslim student at U of Michigan lied in claiming man threatened to light her on fire unless she removed hijab
Hate crimes are political capital. When real ones don’t exist, they must be invented. Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. A New Jersey Muslim was found guilty of murder that he tried to portray as an “Islamophobic” attack, and in […]