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October 10, 2023 – Just three days after Hamas committed the biggest blood blood of Jews since the Holocaust, I was preparing to teach a nightly graduate seminar at Northeastern University on terrorism and counterterrorism.
Wearing a kefier, he pushed a flyer in my hand to attend a “meeting” in Cambridge, which insisted Palestinian resistance. I quietly turned around, placed the flyer in my office and headed for class.
I politely asked him to retire, so I have been able to start teaching international safety for the past decade, like Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins and Northeastern. We only met our class once a week, so we wanted to start a lesson plan. However, the intruder refused to leave and cut it to class time. He told me that he is a university student and I need to ensure that my courses he is not registered are consistent with his anti-Israel views. After about 15 minutes of failure, he negotiated with him to leave, he began to walk around the classroom, giving Israel a Diatribe and encouraging shocked students who attended the course to leave my class across the town of Cambridge.
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Anti-Israel protesters at Northeastern University. (Photo by Anibalmertel/Anadoru via Getty Images)
I was not the only Jewish teacher who targeted anti-Israel activists to limit academic freedom in my school. Importantly, neither of us taught us anything related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My module that day happened to be on the topic of right-wing extremism. No, my colleague and I were aiming to be Jewish teachers.
We both submitted separate formal complaints to the Office of Student Action and Dispute Resolution (OSCCR). However, the OSCCR refused to evaluate me for the outcome of my complaints. Later in the semester, my phone blew away warnings from a friend that my phone had been escorted from a police graduation ceremony to make a huge scene that fake bloody into the horrors of all the graduates and their families, and discovered that my university clearly wasn't disciplining students enough.
When I go to school, I often call my mother. And she often asks me if there is more insanity on campus. What she asks is whether there is any more confusion from the militant students on campus. However, this is a common misconception about the hierarchy of issues Jewish faculty have faced in American higher education, preceded by the October 7th terrorist massacre and the resulting “global intifadas” on university campuses across the country.
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Anti-Israel protesters in downtown Boston will gather at Northeastern University in Boston on April 25, 2024 in support of the Harvard Yard camp for the attack on Gaza in Israel Yard. (Photo by Anibalmertel/Anadoru via Getty Images)
Such incidents are, of course, very prominent in the news. But the big problem for me was that university administrators didn't take me back, not the student plays supported by Intifada. The administration never checked in with me or my students after the class was taken hostage by extremists. The university refused to provide security to its classes even after being targeted. And it led to embarrassment when the university was unable to adequately deal with known student extremists, and the spoiled graduation ceremony turned into a national news story.
This is how universities across the country dealt with campus intifadas for Jewish students and faculty by doing little.
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President Donald Trump will speak at the FIFA Task Force meeting held in the Eastern Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
That's until Donald Trump is re-elected as president. Since then there has been a clear sense that extremism associated with anti-Semitism is punished by the government, not by the university. Since his reelection, my classroom has not had an Intifada leader. And they know that if there is, they will be dealt with more seriously by the administration. And for the first time in my decade in Northeastern, my substantive service to Jewish students as a faculty advisor to Chabad and Hillel has been properly counted in the annual merit review of pay and promotion.
I think these positive changes are due to Trump's effects.
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