Edward Carver | ‘For Gaza’ Hundreds of Students Stage Walkout at Harvard Commencement Ceremony
Students called it an “unduly harsh punishment” that threatens the future of the seniors, and a professor warned it could lead to a “faculty rebellion.”
Atalia Omer: For many American Jews protesting for Palestinians, activism is a journey rooted in their Jewish values
Activists emphasized that they were inspired to act because of their Jewish identity and values, not in spite of them.
Christian Appy: UMass Arrests | What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do?
I am quite sure he would have been, as I am, deeply inspired by the passion of these young students.
Jeffrey Sterling: A Whistleblower’s First Post-Prison Trip Abroad
I wasn’t on that stage just to scare the audience about how horrible it will be to be charged under the Espionage Act, I was there to tell them that if I could stand up against it, so can the rest of the world.
Baron Wormser: Prisoners of Virtue
Although the less-than-virtuous, the Toms and Hucks of this world, are constant threats—and thus the grounds for unremitting vigilance, if not outright alarmism—the posse of the virtuous remains snug and smug. Inwardly, they are rigid as dress parade soldiers standing at dutiful attention. Goodness is theirs.
Video: Please Listen To This Professor At Columbia
Dr. Bruce Robbins, a Jewish professor at Columbia University, speaks to the problem with using false anti-semitism charges to distract from the most important issues.
Abby Zimet: The 2024 Class of Gaza | The Students Have Done Their Part
Thousands of students at over 100 U.S colleges in all but four states have embarked on protests and encampments denouncing an Israeli genocide in Gaza that’s now killed at least 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Maha Hilal: Carceral Imperialism
The legacy of the U.S. war in Iraq is, among other things, torture.
John Edward Simms: The Friendship Sweater and Radical Neutrality
A Response to the Editor’s “A Note to Our Readers Concerning Vox Populi’s Coverage of the War on Gaza”
George Yancy and Judith Butler: Universities Have Failed Their Democratic Mission by Repressing Gaza Protests
Universities are using draconian measures against student protesters who refuse to deem Palestinian suffering “unreal.”
Norman Solomon: War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young
In the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture
Mark Rudd: Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68
What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime?
Brett Wilkins: Congressman Mike Collins Cheers Video of Ole Miss Mob Attack on Black Student
This is not about Israel, Palestine, or Gaza. This is old-fashioned American racism and misogyny…
Kathryn Levy: Remembrance
Life that’s embalmed,
life of the dolls
shoved in a corner—who
seem to be staring.