The Trump Effect: Reflections on how academic life has improved for a Jewish professor
Senior counsel to Trump's assistant AG Leo Terrell discusses the goal of the Justice Department's new task force to combat antisemitism on 'Fox News Live.'
On October 10, 2023 — just three days after Hamas perpetrated the largest bloodletting of Jews since the Holocaust — I was preparing to teach my evening graduate seminar at Northeastern University on terrorism and counterterrorism, when a stranger accosted me in the hallway by my office.
Wearing a keffiyeh, he pressed a flier into my hand to attend a "vigil" in Cambridge advocating Palestinian resistance. I quietly turned around, put the flier in my office and headed off to class, where I spotted the same intifada-enthusiast seated among my students.
I politely asked him to leave so I could start teaching about international security as I had at Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins and Northeastern for the last decade. The class only met once a week, and I was eager to commence my lesson plan. But the intruder refused to leave, cutting into class time. He told me that he’s a student at the university and needed to ensure that my course, in which he was not enrolled, aligned with his anti-Israel views. After about 15 minutes of unsuccessfully negotiating with him to leave, he started pacing around the classroom, giving a diatribe........
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