anti-semitism

Being Jewish at Vassar College 

Being Jewish at Vassar College 

Ziva Dahl

"Vile at Vassar," exclaims an editorial in the New York Daily News. "Anti-Semitic Times at Vassar," notes a Vassar graduate at the Daily Kos. "Anti-Israel Jews and the Vassar Blues," pens an op-ed writer in the Wall Street Journal. Jonathan Marks in Commentary magazine asks, "What's going on at Vassar?"

Jewish students at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Vassar College, responding to a 2015 questionnaire, said that at Vassar, it's unwise to advertise that you are Jewish because it will threaten a student's sense of safety. Jewish students self-censor pro-Israel opinions out of fear of retribution from intolerant peers and professors. At Vassar, voicing a pro-Israel view brands you a fascist, a racist, a colonialist, and morally compromised. The intolerant atmosphere suppresses freedom of expression, constructive debate is impossible, and conformity to an anti-Israel orthodoxy is demanded.

Social media helps drive historic Cuban exodus to US
Immigration

Social media helps drive historic Cuban exodus to US

Associated Press

PENAS BLANCAS, Costa Rica (AP) — As summer began to bake the central Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus, Elio Alvarez and Lideisy Hernandez sold their tiny apartment and everything in it for $5,000 and joined the largest migration from their homeland in decades.

Buying two smartphones for $160 apiece on a layover on their way to Ecuador, they plugged themselves into a highly organized, well-funded and increasingly successful homebrewed effort to make human traffickers obsolete by using smartphones and messaging apps on much of the 3,400-mile (5,500-kilometer) overland journey that's become Cubans' main route to the U.S.

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