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What The New York Times Really Thinks About Anti-Israel College Encampments
A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri / File.
Summer is not over yet, but somehow The New York Times can’t remember what truly happened on college campuses this past spring.
Last week, the Times reported that many charges against college campus protestors have been dropped. But their reporting minimizes the causes of the arrests, actively dismissing the underlying violence and antisemitism at the recent demonstrations.
The article terms the encampments as “pro-Palestinian,” neglecting to acknowledge the pro-terror sentiment that was often present.
For example, students at Stanford were seen wearing green headbands with Hamas symbols. At Princeton, Hezbollah flags were waved at a “Gaza solidarity encampment.” Across the country, protestors chanted “Globalize the Intifada” — an international call for targeted terror attacks and violence against Israelis and Jews.
Aside from the actual violence that took place, many of the “peaceful” protestors chanting things like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” were actually calling for violence against Jews and Israelis.
By ignoring these facts, the Times is complicit in downplaying the dangerous antisemitic and anti-Zionist ideologies that were present.
The article first quotes Delia Garza, a prosecutor who dropped charges against more than 100 students arrested at the University of Texas at Austin. She claimed the arrests were for “minor and non-violent offenses,” and that “students protesting on their own campus were simply exercising First Amendment rights.”
In reality, these protests were laden with hateful antisemitic speech and rhetoric. These were not peaceful expressions of free speech, but aggressive campaigns to instill fear and hatred in Jewish students.
At UCLA, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) erected a deeply antisemitic papier-mâché caricature of a pig holding a bag of money in front of an Israeli flag to protest a Board of Regents meeting.
Students were actively prevented from entering campus and going to class, and others were threatened. When that happens, it is no longer speech — but violent action and punishable offenses.
UCLA: A figure depicting Jews as pigs suggesting Jews “prioritize money over lives”.
Remember, it’s “Anti-Zionism” only, definitely not Antisemitism…. pic.twitter.com/8LXktYzhks
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At UMass Amherst, a Jewish student was punched and spat on by another student for waving an Israeli flag.
At Florida International University (FIU), protestors prevented Jewish students from attending Shabbat services as they stood outside the FIU Hillel building.
In many cases, Jewish students were blocked from entering certain areas of campus, libraries, and even classrooms. This harassment and intimidation was seen across dozens of campuses in America.
Once again, The New York Times has failed in its journalistic duty to portray a full and accurate picture of events. In an entire discussion of the campus protest arrests, it does not make a single mention of the extreme antisemitism present at these demonstrations.
Garza’s sentiment that student protesters were simply exercising free speech trivializes their actions and enforces the idea that they do not deserve any consequences for them.
Hermann Walz, a defense lawyer in Austin, Texas, and former prosecutor, claims in the article that “the goal [of these arrests] isn’t to punish people. It’s to clear the streets.” This dangerous statement absolves the protesters of any wrongdoing. It implies that their actions were merely an issue of occupying space on campus, when in reality, the problem is much more significant.
The New York Times’ selective memory of spring’s campus unrest sends a dangerous message that hate-fueled actions against Jews and Zionists are excused and forgotten.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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UN Security Council Meets on Iran as Russia, China Push for a Ceasefire
Members of the Security Council cast a vote during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at UN headquarters in New York, US, Feb. 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
The U.N. Security Council met on Sunday to discuss US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites as Russia, China and Pakistan proposed the 15-member body adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Middle East.
It was not immediately clear when it could be put to a vote. The three countries circulated the draft text, said diplomats, and asked members to share their comments by Monday evening. A resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, France, Britain, Russia or China to pass.
The US is likely to oppose the draft resolution, seen by Reuters, which also condemns attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites and facilities. The text does not name the United States or Israel.
“The bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn in a region that is already reeling,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Sunday. “We now risk descending into a rathole of retaliation after retaliation.”
“We must act – immediately and decisively – to halt the fighting and return to serious, sustained negotiations on the Iran nuclear program,” Guterres said.
The world awaited Iran’s response on Sunday after President Donald Trump said the US had “obliterated” Tehran’s key nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution.
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that while craters were visible at Iran’s enrichment site buried into a mountain at Fordow, “no one – including the IAEA – is in a position to assess the underground damage.”
Grossi said entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit at Iran’s sprawling Isfahan nuclear complex, while the fuel enrichment plant at Natanz has been struck again.
“Iran has informed the IAEA there has been no increase in off-site radiation levels at all three sites,” said Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran requested the U.N. Security Council meeting, calling on the 15-member body “to address this blatant and unlawful act of aggression, to condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
Israel‘s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement on Sunday that the U.S. and Israel “do not deserve any condemnation, but rather an expression of appreciation and gratitude for making the world a safer place.”
Danon told reporters before the council meeting that it was still early when it came to assessing the impact of the U.S. strikes. When asked if Israel was pursuing regime change in Iran, Danon said: “That’s for the Iranian people to decide, not for us.”
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Israel Rejects Critical EU Report Ahead of Ministers’ Meeting
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, June 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
Israel has rejected a European Union report saying it may be breaching human rights obligations in Gaza and the West Bank as a “moral and methodological failure,” according to a document seen by Reuters on Sunday.
The note, sent to EU officials ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting on Monday, said the report by the bloc’s diplomatic service failed to consider Israel’s challenges and was based on inaccurate information.
“The Foreign Ministry of the State of Israel rejects the document … and finds it to be a complete moral and methodological failure,” the note said, adding that it should be dismissed entirely.
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Pope Leo Urges International Diplomacy to Prevent ‘Irreparable Abyss’
FILE PHOTO: Pope Leo XIV holds a Jubilee audience on the occasion of the Jubilee of Sport, at St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican June 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo
Pope Leo on Sunday said the international community must strive to avoid war that risks opening an “irreparable abyss,” and that diplomacy should take the place of conflict.
US forces struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites overnight, joining an Israeli assault in a major new escalation of conflict in the Middle East as Tehran vowed to defend itself.
“Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility: to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable abyss,” Pope Leo said during his weekly prayer with pilgrims.
“No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, the stolen future. Let diplomacy silence the weapons, let nations chart their future with peace efforts, not with violence and bloody conflicts,” he added.
“In this dramatic scenario, which includes Israel and Palestine, the daily suffering of the population, especially in Gaza and other territories, risks being forgotten, where the need for adequate humanitarian support is becoming increasingly urgent,” Pope Leo said.
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