by jpitney | May 25, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel, Middle East, Protest
Marc Novicoff and Robert Kelchen at The Washington Monthly; We at the Washington Monthly tried to get to the bottom of this question: Have pro-Palestinian protests taken place disproportionately at elite colleges, where few students come from lower-income families?...
by jpitney | May 1, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel, Middle East, Public Opinion
Jon Keller at CBS Boston: You’ve seen the crowds and heard the rhetoric. But what impact is all the campus turmoil over the war in Gaza having on public opinion? Not much, according to Dritan Nesho, co-director of the nationwide Harvard Center for American...
by jpitney | Apr 24, 2024 | Higher Education, Middle East, Uncategorized
The 2023 Campus Expression Survey (CES) from the Heterodox Academy: Many students are at least somewhat reluctant to discuss numerous controversial topics, with 47% of CES respondents being reluctant to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 45% being reluctant to...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2024 | Civility, Higher Education, Middle East
Pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Puget Sound shut down a speech by Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA). The topic of his planned speech? Civility....
by jpitney | Oct 14, 2023 | Israel, Journalism, Journalists, Middle East
From the Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists killed, injured, detained or missing in the war, including those hurt as hostilities spread to neighboring Lebanon. In the first seven days of fighting, at least 11 journalists...
by jpitney | Apr 16, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Middle East
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: As the Jerusalem correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, Bethan McKernan has spent much of the last year covering the escalating cycle of violence in in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It feels, she says, like “a...
