Brown University Trains Tomorrow’s Israel Haters, #FreeMahmoud Protest Turns Testy, and Liberal Journos Unload on MSNBC’s New Star

Brown University’s Choices Program develops history and current issues curricula for K-12 schools in all 50 states. Once upon a time, it taught students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” But its recent materials are more critical of the Jewish state—and Brown’s endowed chair of Palestinian studies, Beshara Doumani,

Judge to hear arguments over former Columbia student who Trump wants deported

Lawyers for an activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University are expected to face off Wednesday in court with federal officials who want him deported. A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted Mahmoud Khalil’s removal, barring the government from deporting him before Wednesday’s hearing in New York. Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities

USAID Staff Ordered to Destroy Records, Court Filing Says

The White House said the instruction was sent only to about three dozen employees, and that the documents that were being destroyed were old. Some U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees have received instruction to empty classified safes and destroy agency records, according to a court filing on March 11 by employee unions. The

How a Brown University Professor Helped Drive Anti-Israel Materials Into K-12 Schools

In 2011, Brown University’s Choices Program, which develops curriculum on history and current issues for K-12 schools in all 50 states, taught high school students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” In 2015, anti-Israel academic Beshara Doumani, then a founding director of Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, began