Higher-ed haters (of which, sadly, there are many) would have you believe our elite universities are overrun with self-serious scolds. That students and faculty alike inhabit a cloistered fantasy world, consumed by radical ideologies that preclude them from recognizing how absurd they seem to normal people.
Columbia University's prestigious Knight First Amendment Institute is slated to hold a symposium next week on the eve of 9/11 that will prominently feature "an interview with Mohsen Mahdawi," the Palestinian Columbia protest leader who was recently exposed for a history of supporting "terrorist organizations" and allegedly claiming during a job interview at a gun shop that "I like to kill Jews."
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian Columbia University student who is facing deportation over his central role in the anti-Israel campus protest movement, has a previously undocumented history of "support for terrorists, terrorist organisations, armed violence and those who carried it out," according to a comprehensive investigation published Wednesday by two investigative journalists.
The indictments brought in the Eastern District of Michigan last week against eight 20-somethings deeply involved in anti-Israel protests at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus pull back the curtain on what that movement is really about.
A Democratic Socialist backed by Zohran Mamdani, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is looking to stage an upset primary victory in New York's 13th Congressional District, openly championed a notorious female terrorist convicted of plotting an Israeli supermarket bombing that killed two people, public records show.
"Moderate" Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) appointed a leader of a left-wing nonprofit founded by ousted George Soros-backed prosecutors Chesa Boudin and George Gascón to serve on the state's Criminal Justice Services Board. The new Spanberger appointee, Robyn Sordelett, has said that she's "self-conscious" about her "whiteness" and that she feels "guilt about being born white."
Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong, who resigned after telling the federal government she couldn't recall specifics of any antisemitic incident on campus, is stepping down as CEO of the Ivy League institution's medical center and dean of the medical school, Columbia acting president Claire Shipman announced Monday.
The New York Times is scrambling to defend the integrity of its Gaza-based photographer and his work, which won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday, after a press watchdog organization accused him of "staged scenes" that were closely coordinated with the Hamas terrorist organization.
The Board of Immigration Appeals denied anti-Israel activist and Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil's attempt to reverse the final order of removal it issued on Thursday, according to his lawyers, marking a victory for the Trump administration in its efforts to deport the Syrian native and Algerian national.
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