Jewish voices struggle to find words of reconciliation in face of campus violence
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Jewish voices struggle to find words of reconciliation in face of campus violence

LA Times  

Standing at a cloth-draped table where the Torah is read, Rabbi Sharon Brous delivered her Saturday sermon, recounting her experience at a recent UCLA protest. She described feeling heartbroken by what she witnessed on April 28, “by the language and the vitriol that came from our own Jewish community … language that I have to say matched some of the worst language that we’ve heard against Jews in the last several months.” Thousands demonstrate in support of Israel as pro-Palestinian counterprotesters surround them at UCLA on April 28. “But it seemed that not many people could show empathy for both sides.” Over the last seven months, Myers has met regularly with students — some Jewish, some not — in an attempt to bring understanding to the violence in Israel and in Gaza. While distancing themselves from the demonstrators, the students of Hillel at UCLA issued a statement on May 1, calling for solidarity among Jewish students over “shared feelings of anger.” As for those who sought to exploit the moment: We cannot have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Chandler, who founded the Los Angeles chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, is a critic of Zionism and calls Israel’s invasion of Gaza “genocide.” In her work, Chandler has seen “a focused and concerted effort to frame the quest for Palestinian rights and freedoms and the support for it as antisemitic, to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism,” even though Jewish anti-Zionism has been around as long as there has been Jewish Zionism.

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What the assault on Columbia University is really about
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6 days, 6 hours ago

What the assault on Columbia University is really about

Al Jazeera  

The right is trying to take ideological control over US higher education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism. The campaign to silence Jewish voices critical of Israel led University of Haifa scholars Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona to warn, in an article for UCLA Law Review, that legal frameworks like the IHRA definition are being used to “discipline Jewish identity” …

UCLA task force found ‘serious instances of racism’ against students protesting on behalf of Palestinians
1 week, 1 day ago

UCLA task force found ‘serious instances of racism’ against students protesting on behalf of Palestinians

LA Times  

To the editor: It is disturbing to see that the L.A. Times coverage of the Justice Department’s allegations of antisemitism at the University of California notes only in the last paragraph that there have been accusations of “anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias at UCLA and other UC campuses since 2023”. In fact, UCLA established a task force on anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim …

Arrests of Columbia pro-Palestine activists will not save Israel’s image
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Arrests of Columbia pro-Palestine activists will not save Israel’s image

Al Jazeera  

In April 2024, students across the United States were mobilising to demand an end to their universities’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza. This month, Trump’s government, guided by his newly formed multi-agency Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, announced the cancellation of roughly $400m in federal grants to Columbia University over what it deemed a “failure to protect Jewish students …

Letters to the Editor: When do campus protests on Israel cross the line into antisemitism?
5 months ago

Letters to the Editor: When do campus protests on Israel cross the line into antisemitism?

LA Times  

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate at an encampment on the UCLA campus on April 26. To the editor: The report by UCLA’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias underlines the urgency of developing effective strategies for countering antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of the horrific Hamas attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and its aftermath. The Nexus …

UCLA students and faculty raise alarm on antisemitic and anti-Palestinian hate amid ongoing protests
5 months ago

UCLA students and faculty raise alarm on antisemitic and anti-Palestinian hate amid ongoing protests

LA Times  

To one group, UCLA has become a hotbed of antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias, a campus led by an administration that has not taken enough action to address pro-Palestinian demonstrations that violate university rules and veer into anti-Jewish tropes and slogans. UCLA’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias this week publicly released a 93-page report submitted to the university’s …

Oct. 7 anniversary: A year into the war in Gaza, the center of U.S. Jewish politics has shifted.
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Oct. 7 anniversary: A year into the war in Gaza, the center of U.S. Jewish politics has shifted.

Slate  

Last November, in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, tens of thousands of American Jews rallied in Washington, D.C., for Israel and against antisemitism. One attendee held up a sign that read “Zionists for Nuance and Peace.” The peace bloc, composed of liberally-minded organizations that worked on Israel issues and, unlike Jewish groups to their left, …

Opinion: Can legitimate campus protest be distinguished from antisemitism? This guide aims to help
6 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Can legitimate campus protest be distinguished from antisemitism? This guide aims to help

LA Times  

After one of the most tumultuous years in the modern history of the university, this new academic year brings a sense of trepidation and even dread for students, staff, faculty and administrators. Some students and faculty members at colleges across the country expressed support for the attack or refused to condemn it, leaving many Jews on campus feeling deeply vulnerable. …

Gaza has shown European universities are no longer places of free inquiry
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Gaza has shown European universities are no longer places of free inquiry

Al Jazeera  

The crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech and activism on European campuses does not differ in essence from the repression students face in undemocratic settings. Under the guise of upholding “institutional neutrality” or protecting the welfare of Jewish students and staff – which has led to a paternalism that has dangerously homogenised the opinions and commitments of Jewish academics, as the UK …

Language, Power, and the Palestinian Genocide: Unpacking Western Media Narratives
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Language, Power, and the Palestinian Genocide: Unpacking Western Media Narratives

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 02, 2024 15:00 IST - 6 MINS READ There is power in forming knowledge by selecting words, assigning meaning to them, and imposing that on those who use those words. This is the power exercised by the political elite and media in the West when it comes to representing Palestinians and the genocide in their homeland. Exposing …

Keeping political activism free from antisemitism: The ethics of protest to the Israel-Hamas conflict
9 months ago

Keeping political activism free from antisemitism: The ethics of protest to the Israel-Hamas conflict

ABC  

In the wake of the atrocities of 7 October 2023, and the Israel-Hamas war that ensued, the West has witnessed a surge of fervent protests. The conflation of Jewishness with Zionism To be sure, it is certainly possible to criticise Israel without being antisemitic by focusing on policies and actions of the Israeli government rather than targeting Jewish people as …

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rally in Washington to mark a painful present and past
10 months, 1 week ago

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rally in Washington to mark a painful present and past

The Hindu  

Hundreds of protesters rallying within sight of the Capitol chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and voiced criticism of the Israeli and American governments as they marked a painful present — the war in Gaza — and past — the exodus of some 7,00,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from what is now Israel when the country was created in 1948. ‘Genocide’s …

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rally in the rain in DC to mark a painful present and past
10 months, 1 week ago

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rally in the rain in DC to mark a painful present and past

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of protesters rallied within sight of the U.S. Capitol, chanting pro-Palestinian slogans and voicing criticism of the Israeli and American governments as they marked a painful present — the war in Gaza — and past — the exodus of some 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from what is now Israel when the state was created …

Navigating the Gaza crisis from afar
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Navigating the Gaza crisis from afar

China Daily  

A projection of US President Joe Biden is seen on the wall of George Washington University during the students encampment protest on May 7. Even as a young Chinese person working and living far away from the Middle East and the US, I find it hard not to be concerned when hundreds of thousands suffer from a dire lack of …

Opinion: Today’s protests are tamer than the campus unrest of the 1960s. So why the harsh response?
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Today’s protests are tamer than the campus unrest of the 1960s. So why the harsh response?

LA Times  

Critics of the recent student protests have often erred by comparing them to the mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War that rocked U.S. college campuses more than half a century ago. Today’s student movement against the Gaza War is far smaller and much less disruptive than the campus antiwar protests of the 1960s. The contrast makes it impossible to escape …

Gaza solidarity encampments: We, as educators, need to protect our students
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Gaza solidarity encampments: We, as educators, need to protect our students

Al Jazeera  

We have a duty of care for our students who are being attacked for practising outside the classroom what they have learned inside of it. And when the police stormed the encampment at Washington University in St Louis, 65-year-old Professor Steve Tamari of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville was “body slammed and crushed by the weight of several St Louis County …

When Academia Fails: The Need for State Intervention Against Campus Radicalism
10 months, 2 weeks ago

When Academia Fails: The Need for State Intervention Against Campus Radicalism

News 18  

There has been no difference in the hate that is being taught in European universities and madrassas regarding Hindus and Jews, especially after the emergence of critical race theory and the funding of Islamic countries post 9/11 to the universities of the United States, which is leading today’s academic world. Similarly, the encampment of radical student outfits that started at …

What gets lost in the campus protests
10 months, 2 weeks ago

What gets lost in the campus protests

Salon  

Student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza have taken place at colleges and universities in at least 45 states, as well as in Mexico and Canada. For a variety of reasons, most notably, the global democracy crisis and the rise of illiberalism and the Age of Trump, the student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza have become a focal point …

Some colleges begin taking tougher stance on pro-Palestinian protests
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Some colleges begin taking tougher stance on pro-Palestinian protests

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. “The protesters’ cause is important — bringing attention to the killing of innocent people,” university President Michael Roth wrote to the campus community …

Watching the watchdogs: How US media weaponised campus protests coverage
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Watching the watchdogs: How US media weaponised campus protests coverage

Al Jazeera  

A great, novel experiment in political physics is under way in the United States, as the unstoppable moral force of youth-led protests against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza runs into the immovable object of the American power elite’s support for it. In this clash, two critical forces have been weaponised: the US mainstream media that heavily disseminates Israeli propaganda and …

Universities accused of abandoning Jewish students after 'increasingly hostile rhetoric emanating from encampments in solidarity with Gaza'
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Universities accused of abandoning Jewish students after 'increasingly hostile rhetoric emanating from encampments in solidarity with Gaza'

Daily Mail  

Universities have been accused of deserting Jewish students over divisive pro-Palestine protests sweeping across the country. Edward Isaacs, president of the Union of Jewish Students, said campus bosses have been ‘unwilling’ to be ‘allies’ to his members and are not making them feel ‘included’. Universities have been accused of deserting Jewish students over divisive pro-Palestine protests sweeping across the country …

Jewish students grapple with how to respond to pro-Palestinian campus protests
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Jewish students grapple with how to respond to pro-Palestinian campus protests

Associated Press  

Some Jewish students have taken part in strident pro-Palestinian protests dominating U.S. colleges in recent weeks, but few have led rallies in support of Israel or against perceived displays of antisemitism. Chants of “We are Hamas.” “Not everyone is actively endorsing these antisemitic posters and chants and signs and graffiti, but it feels like a large majority is at least …

US campus protests updates: Police clear pro-Palestine UCLA camp
10 months, 3 weeks ago

US campus protests updates: Police clear pro-Palestine UCLA camp

Al Jazeera  

Like those in the US, the encampment at Canada’s McGill University has struck a chord – both with the students and wider community members who support the protesters, and with the pro-Israel politicians and groups that have vehemently denounced them. Some supporters say the encampments have stirred such strong reactions because they are highlighting stark inconsistencies: governments that say they …

UCLA clashes: Pro-Palestinian protesters attacked by Israel supporters
10 months, 4 weeks ago

UCLA clashes: Pro-Palestinian protesters attacked by Israel supporters

Al Jazeera  

A demonstration against Israel’s war on Gaza at the University of California in Los Angeles turned violent when a vigilante pro-Israel mob attacked a solidarity encampment occupied by peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters. — LAPD HQ May 1, 2024 “Horrific acts of violence occurred at the encampment tonight and we immediately called law enforcement for mutual aid support,” Mary Osako, a senior …

Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)

Slate  

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: solidarity? Many hundreds of students, faculty, and outside community members have been arrested in tense clashes with police — called onto campuses by the universities themselves. Student protestors have shaped public discourse on matters like war and the environment for many decades. So are today’s student protestors instigating change in Gaza… or teeing …

US advocacy groups back Palestine solidarity campus protests amid Gaza war
11 months ago

US advocacy groups back Palestine solidarity campus protests amid Gaza war

Al Jazeera  

Washington, DC – Dozens of faith, civil rights and progressive groups in the United States have expressed solidarity with university students protesting against US support for Israel amid the war on Gaza. ‘Violent response’ The protests started to gain momentum earlier in April at Columbia University in New York, where students continue to face arrests after the college administration called …

Pro-Palestinian encampments are spreading across U.S. colleges. What are the students demanding?
11 months ago

Pro-Palestinian encampments are spreading across U.S. colleges. What are the students demanding?

LA Times  

It’s Friday, April 26. The New York Police Department arrested more than 100 people last week at an encampment formed by student activists on Columbia University’s main lawn in protest against the Israel-Hamas war. Here are some of their other demands: For the university to “divest all its funds from and end all partnerships with Israel by any direct holdings.” …

Biden tries to navigate the Israel-Hamas war protests roiling college campuses
11 months ago

Biden tries to navigate the Israel-Hamas war protests roiling college campuses

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new and unpredictable challenge for President Joe Biden as he resists calls to cut off U.S. support for Israel while trying to hold together the coalition of voters he’ll need for reelection. The White House, in a message Sunday to mark the Passover holiday, denounced what it …

Gaza War Protests Erupt Across College Campuses Nationwide
11 months ago

Gaza War Protests Erupt Across College Campuses Nationwide

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING College campuses across the country have become home to protests and encampments against Israel’s war on Gaza — leading to hundreds of arrests. President Joe Biden has condemned any antisemitism on college campuses as protesters at Columbia University spent their fifth day demanding the school sever financial ties with companies that aid in the war. pic.twitter.com/mQaoctmT9H — …

‘You’re baby killers’: The pro-Palestine university protest spilling out into the streets of New York
11 months ago

‘You’re baby killers’: The pro-Palestine university protest spilling out into the streets of New York

The Telegraph  

“You’re f------ baby killers, that’s what you are”, a protester wearing a red-and-white keffiyeh bellows at a Jewish Columbia alumnus outside the Ivy League university’s gates. “I don’t support the Israeli state but I don’t support the slaughter of Jewish people”, Elliott, 76, who graduated from Columbia in 1968, shouts in response. The terse exchange is an example of tensions …

Israel's Palestinian citizens grow louder in protesting the Gaza war
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel's Palestinian citizens grow louder in protesting the Gaza war

NPR  

Israel's Palestinian citizens grow louder in protesting the Gaza war Enlarge this image toggle caption Maya Levin for NPR Maya Levin for NPR DEIR HANNA, Israel — After the brutal Hamas attack last October, which Israel says killed 1,200 people, anti-war demonstrations in Israel were quashed. "It's shifting, but it's still a very grim picture from where I'm standing," says …

We, Jewish students, must not be silent on the genocide in Gaza
1 year, 1 month ago

We, Jewish students, must not be silent on the genocide in Gaza

Al Jazeera  

The suppression of pro-Palestinian voices is not fighting anti-Semitism because there is nothing anti-Semitic about opposing genocide. On December 5, 2023, I joined fellow Jewish university students outside the United States Congress to protest against a resolution conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. Israeli officials openly call for Palestinian civilians’ fates to be “more painful than death” and appeal for …

Gaza and Germany’s departure from reason
1 year, 2 months ago

Gaza and Germany’s departure from reason

Al Jazeera  

In an open letter, 300 scholars from across the world condemn Germany’s role in silencing Palestinians and contributing to Israel’s genocide. A month ago, more than 300 scholars and thinkers – among them Arturo Escobar, Gloria Wekker, Helen Verran, Erik Swyngedouw, Zoe Todd, Rashid Khalidi, Catherine Walsh – signed an open letter denouncing German complicity in Israel’s genocide against the …

Opinion: Don’t cancel U.S. college students with strong views on Israel and Gaza. Encourage complexity
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Don’t cancel U.S. college students with strong views on Israel and Gaza. Encourage complexity

LA Times  

Campuses across the nation are debating what is and isn’t free speech. As a secular Jewish woman, I can be both broken-hearted over the 1,200 Israelis killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and also grieve for the more than 13,000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s retaliation. As an analytical thinker, I must concede that I cannot understand a quality of …

The Israel-Hamas war is driving a surge in US hate crimes. These Jewish Americans say it’s changing the way they live
1 year, 4 months ago

The Israel-Hamas war is driving a surge in US hate crimes. These Jewish Americans say it’s changing the way they live

CNN  

Editor’s Note: CNN recently asked Arabs, Muslims and Jews in America how they are facing the new reality of hate-motivated attacks against their communities. A statement from his attorney called his actions that day “peaceful.” Franklin said the surge in antisemitism has made her feel uncomfortable making any public display of her Jewish identity, or her support for Israel. “My …

‘No ceasefire’: Israel supporters gather in Washington, DC, amid Gaza war
1 year, 4 months ago

‘No ceasefire’: Israel supporters gather in Washington, DC, amid Gaza war

Al Jazeera  

The March for Israel attracted thousands of protesters and top politicians, many of whom rejected calls to end the war. The crowd had gathered to back Israel’s war in Gaza and to call for the release of more than 200 captives held by the Palestinian group Hamas. Asked whether Israel’s occupation of Gaza contributed to hostility in the conflict, Weiss …

My Students Wanted to Talk Israel-Palestine. Here’s What We Did Instead.
1 year, 4 months ago

My Students Wanted to Talk Israel-Palestine. Here’s What We Did Instead.

Slate  

I’ve been teaching Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents to college students for a long time now, and it’s always a challenge. Early on he argued that the best we can do is replace “hysterical misery with common unhappiness,” and his bleak appraisal of the human condition was solidified during World War I: “We cannot but feel that no event …

Clashes over Israel-Hamas war shatter students’ sense of safety on US college campuses
1 year, 4 months ago

Clashes over Israel-Hamas war shatter students’ sense of safety on US college campuses

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — As a Jewish student, Eden Roth always has felt safe and welcome at Tulane University, where more than 40% of the students are Jewish. “To see it on Tulane’s campus is definitely scary,” said Jacob Starr, a Jewish student from Massachusetts. Sackheim says she knows students who oppose Israel’s policies “but don’t feel comfortable to publicly say …

Pro-Palestine protesters shout down Jewish college students testifying on the alarming rise of antisemitism on campus and 'Jew hatred' taking hold nationwide during free speech hearing
1 year, 4 months ago

Pro-Palestine protesters shout down Jewish college students testifying on the alarming rise of antisemitism on campus and 'Jew hatred' taking hold nationwide during free speech hearing

Daily Mail  

A hearing on free speech was disrupted multiple times by pro-Palestine protestors who heckled Jewish students telling heartbreaking stories of enduring rampant antisemitism on their college campuses. A protestor held a sign stating ' Congress silences Palestinians' One protestor wearing a distracting pink GAZA crown sat immediately behind the student witnesses. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pledged that they …

US campus protests: Students say how the Israel-Hamas war is impacting them
1 year, 4 months ago

US campus protests: Students say how the Israel-Hamas war is impacting them

CNN  

CNN — Students have held hundreds of protests and counterprotests on college campuses since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israelis and Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza in response. On October 7, when, like many people around the world, Abuhashim still didn’t know the scale of the Hamas attacks in Israel, she was already “really, really worried,” she said. “I feel …

US rights group urges colleges to protect free speech amid Israel-Gaza war
1 year, 4 months ago

US rights group urges colleges to protect free speech amid Israel-Gaza war

Al Jazeera  

Washington, DC – A prominent civil rights group in the United States has urged colleges and universities to respect free speech and resist calls to investigate or disband student organisations rallying on behalf of Palestinian rights. And the State University System of Florida called for the public institutions under its control to dismantle chapters of the advocacy group Students for …

A chant used at anti-Israel protests on two college campuses does not call for ‘Jewish genocide’
55 years, 2 months ago

A chant used at anti-Israel protests on two college campuses does not call for ‘Jewish genocide’

Associated Press  

CLAIM: Pro-Palestine rallies at UCLA, Penn and elsewhere are calling for “Jewish genocide.” AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Protestors aren’t saying “We want Jewish genocide,” but “Israel, we charge you with genocide.” Experts and advocates say it’s a typical refrain heard at pro-Palestinian rallies. “In UCLA hundreds of students chanting: ‘Israel Israel you can’t hide, we want Jewish genocide’,” wrote one Instagram …

Column: Campus rallies inspired by Israel-Hamas war aren't just pro-Palestinian. They're anticolonial
1 year, 5 months ago

Column: Campus rallies inspired by Israel-Hamas war aren't just pro-Palestinian. They're anticolonial

LA Times  

Abe Baker-Butler, a junior at Yale University, was working on an essay in the library on Oct. 7 when his phone began buzzing and wouldn’t stop. As president of the American Jewish Committee’s Campus Global Board, Baker-Butler was receiving texts from Jewish college students around the world, some of whom he had met during his most recent visit to Israel …

Tensions surge at US universities as students rally over Israel-Hamas war
1 year, 5 months ago

Tensions surge at US universities as students rally over Israel-Hamas war

Al Jazeera  

Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israel protests have come head to head on some campuses, raising concerns over student safety. “I’ve had multiple people tell me, like, to go f*** myself or go f***ing die,” one Arab-American graduate student at Harvard University told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. “It’s not just any one group,” the board member, who asked not to be …

The Hamas-Israel war is dividing college campuses
1 year, 5 months ago

The Hamas-Israel war is dividing college campuses

LA Times  

Clockwise from top left: Students rally on the UCLA campus in support of Palestinians, USC students attend an evening vigil in support of Israel, a pro-Palestinian rally at Cal State Long Beach, and a pro-Israel vigil at USC. 8 great places to learn to sew in L.A. And here’s today’s e-newspaper The Hamas-Israel violence conflict is dividing college campuses Tense …

Grief, anger, fear on college campuses as Israel-Hamas war divide comes home
1 year, 5 months ago

Grief, anger, fear on college campuses as Israel-Hamas war divide comes home

LA Times  

Flickering tea lights illuminated the blue-and-white Israeli flag as hundreds of UCLA students and other supporters of Israel gathered for an evening vigil at Bruin Plaza this week. A statement from the National Students for Justice in Palestine, which called for the campus rallies Thursday, described the Hamas attack as a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance.” The group has …

How to think about Israel and Gaza? We asked Palestinian and Jewish leaders
1 year, 5 months ago

How to think about Israel and Gaza? We asked Palestinian and Jewish leaders

LA Times  

For those with ties to Israel and Gaza, this past week has been a nightmare. —Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Temple and Schools That the violence stops as soon as possible and that the people still in harm’s way will be safe.. It’s hard to find hope right now, but I pray that for our communities in …

Interfaith efforts strained by Israeli-Palestinian violence
3 years, 10 months ago

Interfaith efforts strained by Israeli-Palestinian violence

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’re heartbroken,” said Muslim attorney Atiya Aftab, the New Jersey-based co-founder of …

Silencing pro-Palestinian speech on campus
12 years, 8 months ago

Silencing pro-Palestinian speech on campus

Al Jazeera  

The UC has double standards when it comes to Palestinians and their right to free speech, writes Kanazi. Israeli apartheid When asked about his reaction to the report, UCLA Students for Justice in Palestine member Rahim Kurwa said, “it reflects an attempt to put the brakes on campus discussion that is rapidly shifting from whether Israel is practicing apartheid to …

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