Amna Farooqi is the president of the J Street U National Student Board. Follow her on Twitter at @afarooqi99.
Amna Farooqi
By Amna Farooqi
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Community Our Radical Weapon Against the Israeli Occupation: Kindness
In July, I travelled to the South Hebron Hills for the Center for Jewish Nonviolence’s campaign, “Occupation is not Our Judaism.” The campaign, an expression of solidarity with Palestinian and Israeli activists working to resist the occupation of the Palestinian territory beyond the Green Line, called on Jews of different backgrounds, denominations, and affiliations to…
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Opinion Worried About BDS and ‘Intersectionality’? Act Against Israel’s Occupation.
David Bernstein, the new president of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, wrote last week about an important phenomenon impacting campus activism and debate around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: intersectionality. Bernstein observed that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, has been building alliances with other social justice groups, emphasizing the solidarity between Palestinians and…
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