The Guardian, campus newspaper of the University of California at San Diego, is one of countless campus newspapers that make little if any pretense of being fair and even-handed when it comes to sensitive issues. The rule in campus journalism is to closely follow the rules of political correctness.
For years, I have been reading campus newspapers online as to how they report the Israel-Palestinian conflict and issues of pro-Palestinian activism, as well as campus anti-Semitism. What I have found is that while some will give an occasional op-ed to a conservative or pro-Israel student, the reporting and the editorial writing are overwhelmingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-Israel, and pro-Palestinian. Given the overall culture dominating academia today, this is hardly surprising.
Now, several news sources are reporting complaints of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel bias on the part of the Guardian. The article linked here in the Jewish news site, Algemeiner, is written by a UCSD student, Ellia Torkian, who uses statistical arguments, specific examples, and personal experiences dealing with the Guardian, as well as those of another student-writer, identified as JS, who had difficulty getting an innocuous article about the campus Hillel chapter's work helping Jewish students deal with anti-Semitism past the editors before eventually giving up.
As of this writing, I have not found any mention of this controversy in the current edition of the Guardian.
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