Cara Hogan
By Cara Hogan
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Israel News Hillel BDS Controversy Fails To Overshadow Inspirational Harvard Civil Rights Panel
Dorothy Zellner spoke with a rare passion about how her Jewish upbringing inspired her to join the civil rights movement in the Deep South a half-century ago. Alongside black speakers at a panel at Harvard Hillel, the on-campus center for Jewish students, marking the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom summer, Zellner explained why it…
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Israel News Harvard Hillel Hosts BDS Supporter for Panel in Apparent Break With Policy
Hillel International has given its stamp of approval to a Harvard event that included a speaker who supports the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — arguing that, in this case, the Jewish campus group’s own ban on such events doesn’t apply. Harvard University’s Hillel center for Jewish students co-sponsored last night’s panel…
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Israel News Northeastern U. Duel Over Pro-Palestinian Group Mirrors Nationwide Fight
Like Alan Dershowitz, his former teacher and Harvard Law School colleague, Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate is both a strong supporter of Israel and a passionate free speech advocate. So Silverglate had two reactions when Northeastern University unceremoniously suspended its campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. “I actually think that the [SJP] students are…
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