Akiva Colin Haskins

Breaking: UCLA is silencing Jewish critics of Israel, Israeli-American student says

By Akiva Colin Haskins March 23, 2025

Photo courtesy of Shay Horse, 30 April 2024. UCLA is silencing the voices of Jewish students who are critical of Israel, an Israeli-American student who is suing the university said Thursday. Binyamin Moryosef, a fourth-year English major at UCLA is among more than thirty students, faculty, and community members who have filed a lawsuit against…

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Bari Weiss and Jonathan Greenblatt would like you to ignore all those Nazi salutes, thank you very much…

By Akiva Colin Haskins February 28, 2025

At this point, it shouldn’t be surprising. Just weeks after the ADL defended Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration, Steve Bannon throws up what looks like a Nazi salute at CPAC. And then, right on cue, here comes The Free Press—the fearless, supposed bastion of “free thinking” launched by Bari Weiss—publishing an article…

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None Of Us Are Safe

By Akiva Colin Haskins November 6, 2024

It’s been just hours since Donald Trump was re-elected President of the United States, and for many Jews across America—particularly Jewish progressives and Jewish student activists—the prevailing mood is one of dread. Trump’s victory is both a political shift and a profound moment of reckoning for Jewish institutions, which now face a choice between principled…

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Conversations and Conversion: On Judeo-Arab Roots

By Akiva Colin Haskins July 5, 2024

“With all the languages you learn, Akiva,” he told me, “you can’t let yourself forget your mother tongue.”

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