Danielle Shapiro /January 22, 2025
The chaotic anti-Israel protests of last year have faded, but quieter, more insidious biases have remained entrenched on Princeton’s campus. One need look no further than the experience of an Israel club I’m involved with, B’Artzeinu, where university policies have enabled departments and professors to discriminate against pro-Israel students and organizations. This past July, in […]
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Alexandra Orbuch /December 9, 2024
Sunday marked the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the end of a half-century of rule by the Assad family and the culmination of the country’s nearly 14-year-long civil war. Assad fled Damascus on Saturday evening after a coalition of rebel groups seized the capital in a lightning offensive that began in late November. […]
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Beatrice Prince /November 4, 2024
For weeks, many on the political Left have painted Donald Trump’s October 27th rally at Madison Square Garden rally with dark strokes, comparing it to the notorious 1939 Bund rally – a gathering held at the Garden that supported the Nazi regime. A recent Washington Post column argued that the event “mirrored one in the […]
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Alexandra Orbuch /May 29, 2024
Dear Tories, On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants flooded across Israel’s borders, massacred entire families in their homes, raped women, and burned the bodies of adults and children alike. They also abducted innocent civilians—many of whom still remain imprisoned in tunnels beneath Gaza. On that dark October day, more Jews were slaughtered than in any […]
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Bill Hewitt /May 23, 2024
About Kafka’s great story, “A Hunger Artist,” Richard A. Posner observed, “The hunger artist is tormented by his inability to convince an indifferent world of his artistic integrity.” So, too, Princeton’s recent hunger artists’ professed anguish that the University had not endorsed their cause. Princeton’s hunger artists have decamped their recent performance protest on Cannon […]
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Khoa Sands /April 29, 2024
Across the country, students are occupying university campuses and decrying their own schools. Chaos has unfolded at numerous universities. As authorities attempt to control the protest, criticism has mounted over perceived excessive force. The upcoming Democratic Party Convention in Chicago promises to be marked by radical demonstrations. The year was 1968. In 2024, we are […]
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Zach Gardner /April 28, 2024
Last fall, I had the pleasure of taking retiring Professor William C. Jordan’s final offering of HIS 367, “English Constitutional History,” a staple of Princeton’s history curriculum that has been offered for over a century. The class met in a first floor lecture room in McCosh Hall, right behind the spot where anti-Israel protestors have […]
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The Princeton Tory /April 25, 2024
On April 24, 2024, National Review (NR) published an article announcing that, according to leaked documents, students planned to organize a “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Princeton. Pro-Palestinian protestors have set up similar encampments at universities across the country in recent weeks, most notably at Columbia University. After the NR piece was published, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun […]
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Darius Gross /March 27, 2024
On Thursday, March 21, Princeton’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted Norman Finkelstein GS ’87 for a lecture titled “On the Gaza Genocide.” The talk centered on a comparison between the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and Israel’s ongoing operations against Hamas in Gaza. During the lecture, Finkelstein refused to condemn Hamas for perpetrating […]
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Darius Gross /March 4, 2024
On Tuesday, February 27, the Department of English, the Department of African American Studies, and the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) co-hosted the annual Edward Said ‘57 Memorial Lecture. The lecture was delivered by Samah Jabr, a psychiatrist and head of the mental health unit of the Palestinian Ministry of Health. In her talk, Jabr […]
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Darius Gross /February 15, 2024
On Friday, February 9, Princeton’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a student walkout to protest Israel’s campaign in Gaza. The assembly joined in chants and cheered on speeches in support of a “free Palestine” from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, support of Houthi piracy, and the end of the […]
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Jared Stone /November 30, 2023
The past month has been one of immense reckoning for the Princeton University community. Hamas’ barbaric rampage against Jewish civilians on October 7 (now referred to in Israel as “Black Shabbat”) has had a devastating effect on Jewish students – upon the feeling of security that fortifies both secular and observant students’ identities at this […]
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