Some colleges are making deals to close pro-Palestinian encampments. Not all of the protests’ critics are happy.
The Jewish president of Northwestern University is facing calls to resign after striking a deal with protesters there
The Jewish president of Northwestern University is facing calls to resign after striking a deal with protesters there
Members of an advisory committee to combat antisemitism say they were not consulted
Columbia students draped an “intifada” banner down Hamilton Hall, a university building that has been the site of student takeovers in the past
Did Northwestern University student efforts to fight for Black student’s safety on campus take an ugly turn to antisemitism? That’s the contention raised in an open letter from the university’s president Morton Schapiro — though students who took part in the protests dispute it. In a letter to the campus community, Schapiro said some students…
Campus police at Northwestern University are investigating who left a sticker with the white nationalist catchphrase “it’s okay to be white” in a dining hall. Student Rishi Mahesh posted a picture of the sticker, which he said he found in Allison Dining Hall. “For anyone who is unfamiliar, ‘it’s okay to be white’ is not…
Once again, Northwestern has been included on a wildly inaccurate and non-scientific list of “anti-Semitic” American college campuses. This time, it is Algemeiner’s “The 40 Worst Colleges for Jewish Students.” It is clear that Algemeiner’s editorial staff chose not to engage with the Jewish communities at the schools they listed; instead, they ranked them based…
Everyone loves lists. Lists are fun and informative, and ranked lists in particular help us make decisions more efficiently. But lists are also deceptively powerful: it’s really hard for a person to properly judge the objective value of something distinct from its ranking once they’ve seen it on a ranked list, whether that “something” is…
For 36 years, Peter Hayes’s History of the Holocaust course at Northwestern University was the best lecture series on campus. Over the course of eight weeks, Hayes, a professor of German history, explained the Holocaust by answering a series of questions: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why didn’t the Jews fight back?…