William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism
Zach Kessel is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism. His work primarily focuses on education management, cultural issues, and society, with a particular emphasis on counterterrorism, educational policy, and school governance. He has been featured in The Dispatch, Washington Free Beacon, National Review, and Conservative Review.
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By: Collin Anderson, Zach Kessel
A contract between an "Islamophobia" initiative at Georgetown University and Hamas-allied Qatar, where Georgetown operates a satellite campus, includes a clause that requires Georgetown to consult with a Qatari government group when selecting "speakers" and "themes" for events in Washington, D.C., documents released by the House Education Committee and reviewed by the
By: Zach Kessel
Cornell University president Michael Kotlikoff sent an email to the university community on Friday pushing back on the anti-Israel radicals who surrounded his car after a campus debate on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and accused him of backing into a demonstrator.
By: Zach Kessel
Democratic House candidates and lawmakers are lashing out after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced its support for seven candidates who are involved in primary races.
By: Zach Kessel
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on Thursday called on the Department of Justice to investigate Georgetown University in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on a contract requiring that Georgetown consult with a Qatari government group when selecting "themes and speakers" for events in Washington, D.C.
By: Zach Kessel
The top Democrat on the House Education Committee, Rep. Bobby Scott (Va.), sent a letter to the committee's Republican chairman asking for an investigation into antisemitism within campus Republican groups. The letter, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon , marks a shift for Scott, who has repeatedly complained about committee hearings on campus antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023.
By: Zach Kessel
Interim Northwestern University president Henry Bienen said Monday that he is "positive about the relationship" between the university and the Hamas-friendly Gulf state of Qatar. That relationship, which Bienen initiated during his first stint leading Northwestern from 1995 to 2009, includes a contract that prohibits students and faculty at the university's Doha campus from criticizing the Qatari regime.
By: Zach Kessel
Sen. Rand Paul's (R., Ky.) son, William Paul, went on a drunken tirade against Jews while accosting Rep. Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.) at a Capitol Hill restaurant, saying "you Jews" would be to blame should Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) lose his upcoming primary, NOTUS reported Wednesday. Lawler is not Jewish, prompting Paul to apologize to him "for calling you a Jew."
By: Zach Kessel
The X account known as "TrackAIPAC," the self-described "America First" group that accuses pro-Israel U.S. politicians of being "foreign agents," got its start as "California for Warren," an account dedicated to promoting left-wing Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren's (D.) failed presidential campaign, a Washington Free Beacon review found. At one point, the account described itself as part of the "Warren for President team."
By: Zach Kessel
Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Democrat running for Michigan's open Senate seat, sidestepped a question about whether the Democratic Party has a problem with antisemitism, instead accusing Israel of committing "apartheid and genocide" and claiming that both antisemitism and Islamophobia are products of "white supremacy."
By: Zach Kessel
The Democratic nominee to represent New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District in the House of Representatives, Rebecca Bennett, said she "stopped going to church" because she could not sit in a room "full of people who voted for Trump," audio obtained by the
