'Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.'

The definitive essay by Niall Ferguson:

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Glad my daughter withdrew her application from Columbia University

As an undergrad and grad student in the '80s, it's hard to remember a week without a protest against something. But I don't remember physical violence and the moral vapidity of telling a Jewish student to go back to Poland. Deeply, deeply fucked up.

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“It felt like a page out of a dystopian novel.”

WATCH: Last night, Jewish Columbia student @JessicaSchwalb7 and her friends were surrounded by pro-Palestine protesters—who demanded the “Zionists” leave their camp immediately.

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Still more frustration, also in New York City, with lack of progress toward a two-state solution.

“Kessler's merit is that he brings to life an often neglected, doom-laden phase of this conflict, with a sober eye for the facts and without taking polemical sides – and on this subject that alone is a relief.”

A review in NRC Handelsblad, the Netherlands’ newspaper of record:

Today — Passover, the Festival of Freedom — is Day 200. Bring them home now.

They must be frustrated with the lack of progress towards a two-state solution with mutually agreeable land swaps.

EXCLUSIVE: Columbia Journalism School alumni descended into a heated row last week after a film director and producer who graduated from the school referred to some campus demonstrators as “murderous crackpots” and “pro-terror wack jobs.” trib.al/6cCnWnR

What a beautiful peace of history that resonates today.

Chag Pesach Sameach. We are connected more than ever for peace and mutual understanding and care.

Hezbollah wishes you a happy holiday.

Red alert at Metula just before Passover dawns in Israel