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Withholding Funds Won’t Be Enough to End Anti-Semitism at Harvard

2 weeks ago | mosaicmagazine.com | Ruth Wisse

While the Trump administration has frozen over $2 billion in federal aid to Harvard, and is now threatening to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status, Ruth R. Wisse is skeptical that much will change. Wisse, who taught at Harvard for over two decades, notes that on October 12, 2023, the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine declared that it sees itself as “PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement”—the movement in question being Hamas.
Opinion | Harvard Is an Islamist Outpost

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Ruth Wisse

For decades it nurtured resentful leftists, and antisemitism united them in a common cause. I taught at Harvard from 1993 through 2014, and I don’t think the federal government’s threats will be effective at changing the university’s culture. Harvard’s leaders don’t yet understand the danger that culture poses to the country or why it required intervention. On Sept.
Opinion | Poland, Netanyahu and the Holocaust

Jan 23, 2025 | wsj.com | Ruth Wisse

Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski did his countrymen a great disservice last month when he announced that Benjamin Netanyahu would face arrest if he attended the Jan. 27 ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He said membership in the International Criminal Court obligated Poland to respect its warrants for the arrest of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister.
What Israel Means To Them Now: Shehekhiyonu

Nov 18, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Ruth Wisse |Abraham Sutzkever

Following the events of October 7, I reached back to a poem I committed to memory when I first read it—a poem written when we Jews thought that the worst was already behind us. I was born in East Central Europe in 1936, and raised in Canada as a fortunate immigrant in the 1940s, and I consider it the greatest privilege of my life to have seen the establishment of the state of Israel.
Weekly Report - August 22nd

Aug 22, 2024 | combatantisemitism.org | Verity Stevenson |Juan Melamed |Yossi Lempkowicz |Ruth Wisse

Anti-Israel demonstrators protesting the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago this week engaged in egregious displays of antisemitism and support for terrorism. As the convention unfolded, protesters carried signs outside reading “Globalize the Intifada” and “End Israel, Stand With Hamas.” Other demonstrators flew the Hamas flag and said, “I am Hamas.
Understanding Joseph Soloveitchik’s Appeal to Christians

Aug 21, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Ruth Wisse

Thomas Aquinas, relying heavily on Maimonides’ discussions of biblical commandments, called the commandments involving the God–man relationship “ceremonial precepts” and those involving interhuman relationships “judicial precepts.” . . . Concerning the moral commandments, most Christians would agree that in general they apply to all mankind. . . . Concerning the ceremonial precepts, Christians part company with Jews. But different Christians do so in different ways.
Pro-Hamas protesters are heirs to decades’ worth of anti-West propaganda By Ruth Wisse

Aug 19, 2024 | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth Wisse |Ruth King

Oct. 7 is widely recognized as “the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust,” yet some Americans — notably the tens of thousands marching on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week — are celebrating the cloning of Nazism. Last century, the United States led the fight against those massacring the Jews. Yet today’s college students are cheering on Hitler’s successors. Many American Jews were “shocked, but not surprised” when antisemitism shot up virulently here on Oct. 8.
It’s All About the Revolution: Ten Techniques Marxists Have Deployed to Gain Influence By Janet Levy

Aug 19, 2024 | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth King |Ruth Wisse

It’s All About the Revolution: Ten Techniques Marxists Have Deployed to Gain Influence By Janet Levy https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/it_s_all_about_the_revolution_ten_techniques_marxists_have_deployed_to_gain_influence.htmlFor an ideology born in a library to an loathsome scholar, Marxism has never shied from world conquest. Its earliest proponents, Marx and Engels included, were committed to inciting revolution in all countries.
Pro-Hamas protesters are heirs to decades’ worth of anti-West propaganda

Aug 19, 2024 | nypost.com | Ruth Wisse

Anti-Israel protesters in Chicago's Union Park preparing to march to the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19, 2024. Photo by CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images Oct.
Can Josh Shapiro’s Party Forgive Him for Telling the Truth?

Aug 16, 2024 | israelbehindthenews.com | Ruth Wisse

The damage antisemitism has done to the Democratic Party and the country isn’t best reflected by Kamala Harris’s rejecting Josh Shapiro as her running mate. Far more telling is the Pennsylvania governor’s apology for an opinion piece he published in his college newspaper. Read More