When Legal Insurrection, the conservative website run by Cornell Professor William Jacobson, law, broke news of Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi’s appearance and anti-Israel comments at an Ithaca elementary school third-grade class, it quickly made national news. Jacobson, who frequently speaks on college campuses around the country about anti-Israel campus climates and Boycott, Divestment, and Sactions...
Founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) and outspoken critic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Bassem Eid spoke at Cornell last week, sponsored by CAMERA on Campus and Cornellians for Israel. “I am a human rights activist,” the speaker said as he started his speech, adding that he had never...
“I don’t want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.” – Remi Kanazi Last Friday, Cornell’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter sponsored a poetry performance by Palestinian-American poet, Remi Kanazi. The performance was Kanazi’s third stop on his university tour in...
Last Friday, Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi gave a presentation to a third-grade class at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca. Tamimi is known for encouraging Palestinian children to confront Israeli soldiers in order to capture video footage portraying the soldiers negatively. In 2011, he was convicted by an Israeli military court for “sending people...
Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad, a controversial speaker who in the past has written and spoken about alleged Zionist-Nazi collaboration and the “Anglo-American gay agenda,” delivered a speech at Cornell claiming Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state, and recognizing it as such is equivalent to recognizing Israel as a “racist state.”...
Cornell’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) recently condemned a Detroit court’s 18-month prison sentence of Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted on terrorism charges in Israel in 1970. “Throughout the trial, the judge’s rulings made it very clear that the court wasn’t interested in a fair trial for Rasmea, but was simply interested...
Jew Hatred on Campus recently publicized their list of the list of the ten most anti-Semitic college campuses of 2014, on which Cornell is ranked #2. The Cornell Review was the only media outlet on campus to write about this disgrace to the University. In a surprising followup to this case, David Horowitz, the founder of Jew Hatred on...
On March 12, the Cornell Student Assembly and Speech & Debate Union hosted a forum for Student Assembly (SA) and University Assembly (UA) representative candidates. Once again, Speech & Debate Society members Nick Rasch and Jennifer Kim moderated the forum. Due to a number of uncontested positions and absent candidates, the forum primarily focused on...
One-fifth of undergraduate students at Cornell are Jewish, yet somehow the University managed to end up on the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s list of the ten most anti-Semitic college campuses of 2014. In fact, Cornell landed at #2, just behind good ole rival Columbia University. The list was compiled by a newly-formed wing of the Horowitz Center...
In 2010, it was reported 70% of incoming college students used Macs. At a college like Cornell, one can surmise the percentage of anti-Israeli students supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) is about the same. Chances are, there is a lot of overlap between the two groups. It may or may not be shocking to you, but...