FBI investigating violent threats sent to Hillel leaders at Brown and Rhode Island School of Design
A building was searched and remains open; security has been increased and an investigation is underway
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Opinion ‘An impact on the world’: Brown University hunger strikers, one Jewish and one Palestinian, on their war protest
Ariela Rosenzweig and Nour Abaherah are among 19 Brown students engaged in a hunger strike to demand the university take a stronger line on Israel
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Fast Forward 19 Brown University students launch hunger strike over Gaza
The students want Brown to divest from companies they claim are profiting from the war in Gaza
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News Your turn: American college students share how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life on campus
Misha Shaffner-Kargman, a Jewish student at a liberal arts college, asks, “Why can’t we just mourn in peace?”
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Fast Forward BDS Supporters Hijack Welcome Ceremony For New Brown University Students
(JTA) — Protesters at Brown University who support divesting from Israel disrupted a welcome ceremony for next year’s freshman class including dropping informational leaflets from the balcony of an auditorium onto the participants. Members of the incoming class of 2023 had just finished watching a promotional video about the university, as part of A Day on…
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Fast Forward Brown University Becomes First Ivy League School To Pass Student BDS Vote
Updated 6:00 p.m. Students at Brown University voted Thursday to call on the school to divest from companies that allegedly violate human rights through their work in Israel. Some 69% voted for the measure in a campus referendum, with 31% opposed. Students were asked whether the university should ““divest all stocks, funds, endowment and other…
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Fast Forward Brown University Condemns ‘Vulgar,’ ‘Anti-Semitic’ Sign On Campus
Brown University issued a statement Friday condemning an anti-Semitic incident that took place on campus last month, Jewish Journal reported. Two people not affiliated with the university displayed “a vulgar and highly offensive anti-Semitic sign, and attempting to engage members of our community in discussion” on July 31, according to a notice from Shontay Delalue,…
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Community The No State Solution
More times than I can count, Brown University students, Jewish and non-Jewish, have decried Israel in what they call “a critique of nationalism” or the state system. On the one hand, I agree with their theoretical point: nationalism and the state system are extremely problematic and have resulted in enormous grief, bloodshed, and displacement across…
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