Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Apr 24, 2024 | mitchellplitnick.substack.com | Jonathan Ben-Menachem |Ryan Grim |Mohamad Elmasry |Susan M. Akram

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Apr 24, 2024 | znetwork.org | Featured Palestine |Jonathan Ben-Menachem

“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.”The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have you believe that the Columbia University campus has devolved into a hotbed of antisemitic violence – but the reality on the ground is very different. As a Jewish student at Columbia, it depresses me that I have to correct the record and explain what the real risk to our safety looks like.

Apr 23, 2024 | zeteo.com | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.”The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have you believe that the Columbia University campus has devolved into a hotbed of antisemitic violence – but the reality on the ground is very different. As a Jewish student at Columbia, it depresses me that I have to correct the record and explain what the real risk to our safety looks like.

Apr 23, 2024 | open.substack.com | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.”The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have you believe that the Columbia University campus has devolved into a hotbed of antisemitic violence – but the reality on the ground is very different. As a Jewish student at Columbia, it depresses me that I have to correct the record and explain what the real risk to our safety looks like.

Sep 19, 2023 | inquest.org | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

As the movement against mass criminalization continues apace, the “evidence-based paradigm” (EBP) for criminal justice reform has become increasingly influential. By “evidence-based paradigm,” I mean a “data-driven” approach to criminal legal reform in which researchers like myself aim to identify “what works” in the quest for decarceration. We can trace the origins of EBP back to the dramatic increases in U.S. criminalization and related fiscal costs in the late twentieth century.