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An American nurse from the Portland, Oregon area will likely be facing an uphill battle in securing a new job after her antisemitic and pro-Hamas comments on Instagram were made public by a group of American Jewish physicians. Registered Nurse Camesha Hart — who I first reported on three weeks ago
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Tearing down posters of Israeli hostages has become a renegade tactic for students and activists who harbor deep-seated animosity toward Jews and Israel. But now, Harvard University is finally taking antisemitism seriously, especially as President Trump has vowed to punish schools that tolerate it. In an unprecedented move, Harvard has
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The nurse who infamously said she’d refuse to treat Jews and called them “vermin” and “rats” is now under investigation by both the university hospital where she works as a nurse and the Oregon State Board of Nursing. As I reported last week — Camesha Hart is a nurse at
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Coming right after Governor Kathy Hochul canceled a Palestine Studies cluster hire at a CUNY school, another American college is now recruiting for a “Palestine Studies” professor or lecturer. The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) posted a job advertisement on Sunday seeking applicants for a “Lecturer: Palestine/Palestinians” position.
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When I was in middle school, I discovered feminism on Tumblr. Always a voracious reader, I devoured every book on it that I could find—eagerly consuming the words of feminists like Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Naomi Wolf. When I ran out of books to read, I turned my
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A group of American physicians has created a call-to-action against an Oregon registered nurse who posted proudly that the now-deceased Shiri Bibas “was fair game” for Hamas to kill, and that Jews are “rats” and “vermin of any kind”. The nurse — Camesha Lynn Hart, of Beaverton Oregon — works at the
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On college campuses across the globe, young men are subjected to lectures, workshops, and extracurricular activities that teach them their masculinity—an element at the very core of their identity—is dangerous, poisonous, and even toxic. For the last decade, I’ve covered men’s issues and advocacy. I started
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The first tenured professor to be fired for antisemitism, as I first reported here, has now secured a comfortable new role at one of anthropology’s most prestigious academic journals. Maura Finkelstein, the subject of eight antisemitic incident reports at Muhlenberg University, was accused by students of pushing anti-Israel bias
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Tonight, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the elite Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut are hosting a Tu B'Shvat Seder for the community to rally around, but the student-protesters seem to have forgotten what Tu B’Shvat actually celebrates. The Israeli holiday of Tu B’Shvat — also
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An educator named Tema Okun, Ph.D., wrote a guide to “white supremacy culture” nearly 25 years ago. But recently, her work has resurfaced in academic studies about “whiteness as power” and claims that white people perpetuate “mathematical violence” and “mathematical trauma.” Okun’s paper, “White Supremacy Culture,” offers a
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The Cleveland, Ohio apparel shop “University Tees” struggled today with whether they should cancel an order placed by the University of Maryland “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) club. The sweater design was posted by UMD SJP’s Instagram page a few days ago. The sweater has “Free Palestine” on
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A department at Northwestern University, closely aligned with the school’s mental health and counseling services, is actively recruiting young men for a program designed to provide “education around masculinity in predominantly masculine spaces.” The MARS program—short for Masculinity, Allyship, Reflection, Solidarity—claims to combat “rape culture” and “restrictive