Harvard Graduate and Jewish Student Leaders - Alan Skorski Reports

My abridged version: Harvard graduate and Jewish student leader, Shabbos Kestenbaum, discussed today's war against campus antisemitism at America's leading universities, citing Columbia and Harvard as being ground zero for Palestinianist-inspired antisemitism. The battle goes beyond Hamas students threatening and harassing Jewish students as the faculties themselves are filled with antisemitic professors and instructors. Now, with the Trump Administration taking tough measures against these institutions, including withholding hundreds of millions of dollars, as they recently did to Columbia, and the arresting for deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Hamas "student" agitator from Columbia, Kestenbaum believes that the universities will only take token measures to try to slip by Trump's new policy. Even now, by willing to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, there will still be wiggle room for these universities to get around expelling students who violate the civil rights of Jewish students. Shabbos discussed his own suit against Harvard, choosing to pursue legal action in court rather than settle out of court as some of his peers did. During the interview we talked about the challenges that Jewish students face as they are vastly outnumbered and out-funded by the pro-Hamas student and faculty activists. Alan Skorski Reports 18MAR2025 - PODCAST