Last week, Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver announced that he would not implement a resolution to deny Pitzer students the opportunity to study abroad at the University of Haifa. The measure, designed to implement the Boycott, Divestment...
Member Writings and Interviews
A Reluctant Campus Acknowledges Zionism
Last year, President Leslie Wong of San Francisco State University declared that Zionists are welcome on his campus. That wasn’t a marketing gimmick to increase enrollments. When asked to affirm that Zionists were welcome on campus in...
Are Israeli Politics Dooming Kushner’s Peace Push?
The Israeli attorney general’s 55-page preliminary indictment linking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to three charges of corruption may create collateral damage: President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.
The Lost History of Democratic Support for Israel
Historically, the Democratic Party has been at the forefront of efforts to fight anti-Semitism. We shouldn’t let Ilhan Omar change that.
Pitzer College Disgraces Itself for BDS
On Thursday, a day on which rockets were fired at Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip, the College Council of Pitzer College voted overwhelmingly to suspend Pitzer’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa. The council, a board...
The ACLU’s Shameful Role in Promoting Antisemitism
There is perhaps no more guilty party in the current wave of antisemitic attacks on pro-Israel Americans than the American Civil Liberties Union. To understand why, one first has to understand that the essence of...
Don’t Be Fooled by the Democrats’ Resolution on Hate
“Americans Stand Apart in Support for Israel,” said Gallup in 2005, the same year that the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel got started. In 2019, this week, the Democratic party found itself at odds...
Democrats’ Troubling Silence on Omar’s Anti-Semitism
When a member of Congress makes bigoted comments, political leaders have a moral duty to condemn them. A special obligation falls on those who lead the member’s party. They should speak out in blunt, clear...
Are Things Looking Up on Campus?
In 2016, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recorded a record number of attempts to disinvite speakers. That was the year CIA Director John Brennan couldn’t finish speaking at the University of Pennsylvania because left-wing protesters disapproved...
Time for Faculty to Stand Against BDS
The faculty of Pitzer College recently voted to suspend its study abroad program at Haifa University. In doing so, they acted, knowingly or unknowingly, at the behest of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,...
