Paul Glynn and Steven McIntosh Culture reporters Watch: How Gary Lineker’s long BBC career came to an abrupt end Gary Lineker has confirmed he will leave the BBC after presenting his final episode of Match of the Day on Sunday. The 64-year-old had been expected to continue fronting coverage of the men’s FA Cup and...
Both my parents graduated from Harvard, as did one of my siblings. At the time of his admission, my father was admitted despite his Jewish heritage because at the time, the prestigious university was as fond of admitting Jews as it is of admitting Asians today. Harvard was WASP heaven then, and it is woke...
It was all the way back in January of 2024 that Harvard President Alan M. Garber announced a presidential task force on antisemitism and Islamophobia. Yesterday, more than a year later, those two reports were finally released. This comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for Harvard which has taken the lead among US universities in...
Saturday at sundown was the beginning of Passover. I know this not as a Jew, but as a Christian who, like Salena Zito, has watched The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner every year since I was a little kid. To my Jewish friends, may the holiday bring you the reminder of what...
Christopher Eisgruber is the President of Princeton and seems to be the Ivy League leader who is stepping up to resist moves made by the Trump administration at other leading colleges and universities. He wrote a piece about it for the Atlantic and recently gave an interview about it to the NY Times. I want...
“You are not welcome here,” read a chilling statement from a top DHS official. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it is monitoring immigrants’ social media accounts for supposed “antisemitism” — a seeming code word for speech criticizing Israel’s U.S.-backed occupation of Palestine and genocide of Palestinians. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
Trump’s attacks on universities are “dangerous and politically motivated,” said New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. The White House announced Thursday that the Trump administration plans to withhold $510 million in federal funding from Brown University while it investigates the school’s response to alleged “antisemitism”— a term that is being weaponized to target protesters against...
Prominent figures, including several Jewish leaders, have stayed away from an international conference on antisemitism held in Jerusalem, in protest at the inclusion of politicians from across Europe associated with the far right. Those who declined to attend included Israel’s own president and the chief rabbi of the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis. At the conference,...
Columbia University has caved into a broad set of demands from Donald Trump in an attempt to restore $400 million in federal funding withheld by his administration. Katrina Armstrong, the university’s interim president, announced on Friday that masks would be banned on campus (barring health or religious reasons), policing would be expanded, and curriculum related...