As a Jewish journalist, I know I am casting my lot with people who, deep down, are antisemitic. But that's okay because I'm confident that however much they hate Jews, they hate Muslims 5-10% more. by Bari Weiss

Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.

If it wasn't clear before, it is now: Trump's investigations are openly corrupt and fraudulent. Any university that cuts a deal is an active party to this corruption

““The political appointees ..determined the outcome almost before the investigation had even started,” said Swedish, referring to Trump administration officials who declared publicly that punishing colleges for antisemitism would be a priority. She resigned in May.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

NU AAUP Condemns Resolution Agreement between the United States of America and Northwestern University, including $75 Million Extortion Payout. academeblog.org/2025/12/01/s... @academemagazine.bsky.social

Even for the Atlantic, this is pathetic. There's clearly nothing more important happening on college campus than this. Got to try to manufacturer a new moral panic. Can we just rename this rag "kids these days!"?

New report shows how Title VI civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools

Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation truthout.org/articles/rep...

CAHE Antifascism caucus event on 11/19! Please register and share!

Come out on 11/6 in SF to listen to the preliminary injunction hearing in AAUP v Trump! Show the federal courts that we stand up for academic freedom and will not capitulate! WE are the UC!

In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel mondoweiss.net/2025/10/in-a...

Arthur Waskow, rabbi who brought spirituality to progressive activism, dies at 92 jweekly.com/2025/10/20/a...

You would think that if an American anti-antisemitism organization served any purpose, it would be to react strongly when the Vice President of the US defends people for praising Hitler. But you would in fact be wrong.

In light of the fact that students protested the university's participation in genocide, Cole argues that the university should reinstate disciplined students, ask NYC to drop criminal charges, and reopen campus gates to the public. All very reasonable points.

Boycotts are working.

🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/MtU2QxEhy0Fr...

UCSF Chancellor emailed the whole campus to say that anything that "politicizes Zionism" - a political ideology - is somehow antisemitic. We live in absurdist times. chancellor.ucsf.edu/news/antisem...

"The Trump admin’s “deals” turn Jewish studies into the court Jew of old. Left unchecked, this spells disaster for the field....Jews will not fare well. They will become exactly what the Trump administration sees them as: symbols to be manipulated, paraded & blamed to explain the ills of the world."

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/03/o...

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Pls read the 161 page opinion. I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed. (1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....

If you are a member of MLA, please sign on to support the proposed resolution 2026-1. We need 100 signatures by 10/1. www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...

So glad that very serious centrists devoted so much time between Trump terms to the urgent national issue of someone being mean on Twitter. As always, finger on the pulse of threats to the First Amendment.

The Head of Trumps's Combatting Antisemitism Task Force Leo Terrell celebrates the corrupt ruling to deport Mahmoud Khalil. If the ruling combined with this clown's social media post don't sum up the incredibly sorry state of affairs of this country, I don't know what does.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

The DOJ official who leads investigations of civil rights violations promising to use her powers to defund American higher ed at the behest of a bigot. One example of how MAGA is weaponizing Kirk's murder as an excuse to go after their perceived enemies. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Opinion | It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence.

@alicesperi.bsky.social is quickly distinguishing herself as the leading journalist documenting attacks on academic freedom today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fact that anyone would defend this is beyond atrocious: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Urge Governor Newsom to Veto Classroom Censorship Bill AB 715 win.newmode.net/caircaliforn...

New UMich Pres should take a Poetry 101 class: "If I could put a notion in his head: ‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense."

Geee... Ya think? "Andreas Stamatakis, founder of the admissions consulting company Ivy League Roadmap, worries the dialogues could become a popularity contest, rewarding students who moderate their opinions and penalizing those with more heterodox views." forward.com/news/762715/...

“I came to the US bc those are things that I wasn’t comfortable doing in my country,” the sophomore said. “I wasn’t comfortable speaking out. It was like a dictatorship, and that’s why I came to America... And then I got met with this." www.record-bee.com/2025/08/09/f...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Come on. Read Stuart Hall. It's not like perception of crime and crime statistics were correlated before the cell phone.