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Columbia’s slippery boycotters

The boycott of Israel at Columbia is a personal affair—so they claim. Continue reading

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Columbia boycotts Israel?

The director of Columbia’s taxpayer-funded Middle East Institute is boycotting Israeli academe. Continue reading

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“Gaza = Auschwitz”

Holocaust inversion, casting Israelis as Nazis and Palestinians as their Jewish victims, finds advocates on the faculty of Columbia University. Continue reading

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Start with two Palestinians

Bir Zeit-on-Hudson was the nickname given by Martin Kramer to Columbia in 2003. Edward Said complained, but Columbia’s new Center for Palestine Studies now confirms its Bir Zeit-like status–and then some. Continue reading

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Why I’m (still) grateful to Columbia

This is how I opened my lecture on U.S. Middle East policy to the Columbia University International Relations Forum on November 16. As some of you may know, I’ve been a long-time and often sharp critic of certain decisions made … Continue reading

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