Opinion

The president achieved the seemingly impossible goal of undoing the woke grip on schools that is destroying American society. And it was easier than anyone thought.

(March 25, 2025 / JNS) Progressive academics have been among the loudest voices calling for a new “resistance” to the second administration of President Donald Trump. But their angry rhetoric and vows to fight what they consider to be a threat to everything they hold dear was shown to be little more than hot air. The first time a leading bastion of the left like Columbia University was faced with a choice between fighting and surrendering to Trump, it folded like a cheap suit.

It seems like we just finished casting our ballots in the 2024 presidential election, and already candidates are campaigning for local elections for 2025 (myself included). But don’t get too comfortable; there’s another critical election happening right now that will shape the future of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide.

Reading Megillas Esther this year, I’ve come to realize that the most important line of the entire Megillah is at the very end. No, I’m not talking about the tax raise that many jokingly boo at. I’m referring to the last line of the entire Megillah – one of the few we say aloud.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian inciter and pro-Hamas sympathizer, at his Columbia University-owned apartment building on Saturday, March 8, has fulfilled one of Donald Trump’s pledges of his 2024 Presidential campaign: Jew-hatred and anti-American actions will no longer be tolerated on campus – or anywhere in the country – or one runs the risk of lawful arrest and deportation.

 The cancellation of his book tour is a reminder that the New York senator failed to lead the fight against Jew-hatred and sought to undermine Israel’s government for partisan reasons.

Ein milim - There are no words. Yet our only way to communicate our disgust is with words, as inadequate as they are. Every person of good conscience and morality, regardless of their religious or geopolitical persuasion, has been sickened and disgusted by Hamas’ actions in the Bibas family so-called hostage release. While every “release” to date has been a sorry and sordid spectacle, this one was the most egregious of all, designed to torture, torment and humiliate. Not satisfied with murdering babies Ariel and Kfir, ages 4 years and 9 months at their abduction and their mother Shiri, the Hamas subhuman barbarians then pulled a heartless, shocking bait and switch, substituting an unknown female corpse for that of Shiri. Shocking and horrifying, but to those who have seen, heard and experienced all of Hamas’ horrors, not surprising.