Berkeley does not have ‘Jew-Free Zones.’ Saying it does causes real damage
A student resolution should provoke a real debate about free speech, not a Barbra Streisand retweet
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Chloe Levian, a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, has only been back on campus a little over a week, but she has already added an additional stressor to her workload: handling anti-Zionism on campus. “Israel’s definitely a divisive topic here. The department statements have just made it very difficult to want to…
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News When Jewish Leaders Decide To Harass College Kids — To ‘Support’ Israel
In June of 2015, one of the leading intellectuals of the Jewish establishment stood on stage in front of hundreds of American Jewish leaders and called for the community to picket outside the home of a college junior. It was the keynote speech at the American Jewish Committee’s annual conference in a year when the…
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News Campus Pro-Israel Group ‘Monitored’ Progressive Jewish Students
In the fall of 2016, roughly a dozen Jewish college students gathered at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for a weekend-long workshop. Led by young organizers from a tiny progressive Jewish student group called Open Hillel, the students strategized and networked. They had no idea they were being watched by a major pro-Israel organization with…
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