Let’s examine one department at Duke University to better understand the antisemitic fervor being experienced throughout academia, the campuses, and in academic publications.

Frances Hasso is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke “with secondary appointments in the Department of History and the Department of Sociology.” In 2024, she excitedly announced on X, “HAMAS OFFICIALLY DEFEATS ISRAEL!”

In 2024 and 2025, Hasso repeatedly made social media posts using the antisemitic slur “Zio.” For example, she tweeted “Just another Zio grifter … his page is for donations.”

A column in the politically left Slate explained, “‘Zio” [is] an anti-Jewish slur popularized by David Duke and his neo-Nazi followers.”

On Oct. 7, 2023, while Israelis were actively being murdered, raped, tortured, and dragged as hostages into tunnels in Gaza, Hasso shared the following post with her accompanying comment that she agrees “1000 percent”:

Anyone who mischaracterizes legitimate Palestinian resistance against colonial occupation as aggression or any other liberal inspired adjectives is not a friend of the Palestinians but a collaborator with liberal obscurantism & mass confusion that only benefits the colonialists.

The same month, Hasso posted, “The US empire cannot end soon enough.”

In late December 2023, The New York Times published an in-depth report detailing sexual assaults against Israelis during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led pogrom.

Hasso signed a letter calling the Times’ report “disgraceful.” She and the other signatories stated they, “Firmly reject The Times’ discreditable report and its exploitation of women’s bodies and struggles as a means to fabricate assault incidents and push propaganda for an unlawful occupation, thereby abetting the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”

Just last month, Hasso shared a post on X, in which the original poster said, “Noone was raped on October 7.”

It is concerning — to say the very least — that the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the gender and feminist program at Duke University rejected a prominent report on sexual assaults against Israelis. Perhaps the motto at Duke should be: Believe all women, except Israeli and Jewish women.

In November of 2023, Hasso was a panelist at the scandalous, “A Round-Table Talk about Social Justice in Palestine,” hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The event — which I attended — began with the audience being shown a short anti-Israel propaganda film titled “Gaza Concentration Camp,” chosen by Hasso. The film narrator stated that on Oct. 7, “Palestinians didn’t break through a border to enter Israel. … They destroyed a fence separating them from the homes they were forced out of.”

The film did not mention any of the Hamas-led atrocities on Oct. 7.

In a now-infamous moment at the event, a panelist, Rania Masri, said: “Oct. 7 for many of us from the region was a beautiful day. It was the day in which we saw that, we saw our brothers, we saw our fathers, we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”

Husso made no comment or objection to this.

Students took dutiful notes. Not a single panelist, moderator, or professor in the room objected to Masri’s hateful comments or even looked concerned.

Since the event, UNC administrators have made multiple apologetic statements distancing the university from Masri’s hateful comments.

But as far as I am aware, Hasso did not distance herself from Masri. In fact, the next year, Hasso made a post on X congratulating Masri for speaking out against the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, tweeting, “Great job @rania_masri.”

Hasso recently shared a post alleging that “Israel keeps trying to kill Israeli hostages… all as [an] excuse to prolong the Genocidal plan of erasing two million Palestinians from Gaza. Israel’s priorities are Nazi’s war-time policies – fastracking Genocide (Final Solution).”

According to the US Department of State, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is one example of antisemitism.

It is simply depraved to say that the government of Israel is trying to kill its own citizens being held hostage.

The Duke student newspaper estimates that tuition, board, and fees at the university for undergraduates will total $92,042 for the 2025-26 academic year. Why would Jewish families — or any families at all — pay such huge costs to send their children to be “educated” by professors like Frances Hasso?

Peter Reitzes writes about issues related to antisemitism and Israel.

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Nearly half of Gazans support recent anti-Hamas protests that have taken place in the Palestinian enclave, according to a new poll released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR).

Conducted in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from May 1 to May 4, the poll found that 48 percent of Gazans support the recent anti-Hamas protests that have taken place across the Strip since March. The protests, which have been supported by major clans across Gaza but have also been met with threats by Hamas, have featured chants calling Hamas terrorists and demanding they step down from power.

Hamas, an internationally designated terrorist group and offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, violently eliminated its Palestinian opposition in a brief conflict in 2007, taking full control of Gaza after winning legislative elections the prior year.

Nearly two decades later, many Gazans have turned on the Islamist movement, according to the latest PCPSR poll.

However, despite almost half of Gazans saying they agree with the protests, the vast majority of Palestinian residents are not aware that others agree with them. Fifty-four percent said they thought the protests were driven by external parties, while 20 percent said they thought the demonstrations were a mix: both artificial and a genuine reflection of what the population thinks.

Anti-Hamas sentiment was also evident in the decline in support for the terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel, in which Hamas-led fighters killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

In December 2023, over 70 percent of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank supported the attack, a figure that remained consistent for months.

However, the Israeli military subsequently revealed in August that it uncovered documents showing Hamas had been secretly fabricating polling results from civilians of the war-torn enclave in order to show higher support for the Oct. 7 attack and hide that the Islamist organization enjoys far less support than previously thought.

Nonetheless, as of May 2025, the PCPSR poll found that just 50 percent now support the massacre, a considerable drop.

The number is even lower among Gazans, just 37 percent of whom responded that they support the Oct. 7 atrocities, while 58 percent said they oppose it. This decline in support is likely due to the devastation caused by the war that has been waged on Hamas in the enclave since then — which has resulted in heavy losses for the terrorist group while also displacing nearly all of Gaza’s civilian population.

Additionally, the perception that Hamas would win the war has dropped precipitously since it began. Just 23 percent of Gazans said they think Hamas will win the current war, while 29 percent responded they think Israel will win, and 46 percent put neither side will win. In contrast, 50 percent of Gazans thought Hamas would win back in December 2023, while 31 percent thought Israel would win.

When asked about what method would be best to achieve the end of the “Israeli occupation” and build a Palestinian state, 41 percent said armed struggle, 33 percent said negotiations, and 20 percent said peaceful resistance. Despite armed struggle having the support of a plurality of Palestinians, it is a large drop from December 2023, when 63 percent thought it was the best method to achieve independence.

Among Gazans in particular, negotiations are more popular than armed struggle. Forty percent responded they primarily support negotiations, 26 percent responded they support peaceful resistance, and 31 percent responded they support armed struggle.

Despite certain trends showing decreased support for Hamas, other data points presented a different picture. In the same survey, for example, 77 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza indicated they oppose Hamas disarming (85 percent in the West Bank and 64 percent in Gaza). This is likely due to the fact that 73 percent of respondents saif they do not think Israel will end the war if Hamas releases its hostages and 80 percent do not think Israel will end the war if Hamas disarms.

Additionally, when asked about what political parties they support, Hamas has more backing than Fatah, the main rival Palestinian political faction, among residents in both the West Bank and Gaza. But pluralities also said they do not know who they support.

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Radiohead guitarist and keyboardist Jonny Greenwood and Israeli Mizrahi singer Dudu Tassa canceled two upcoming concerts together in the United Kingdom following “threats” by supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, the two performers announced in a joint statement on Tuesday.

“The venues and their blameless staff have received enough credible threats to conclude that it’s not safe to proceed,” Greenwood and Tassa said in the statement. “Promoters of the shows can’t be expected to fund our, or our audience’s, protection.”

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