Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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Opinion I’m a Zionist at Columbia. The protesters at Hamilton Hall were a threat to Jewish students like me
I began my freshman year hopefully. Then pro-Palestinian protesters became increasingly radicalized
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News ‘Everyone gets to be uncomfortable’: How Jewish students at Brown kept antisemitism at bay
Other university protesters made headlines for antisemitic chants. Brown students charted a different course.
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Looking Forward Fact, fiction, and the campus protester who got arrested on his birthday
The problem with the Gaza solidarity encampments isn't antisemitism. It's that they've become a distraction from the war itself.
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Opinion Student activists aren’t antisemites; they’re partners in a dance of death
With their extremist rhetoric and tactics, demonstrators risk becoming a mirror-image of their opponents on the far right
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Fast Forward Poll: 47% of US voters believe campuses should ban pro-Palestinian protests
Survey also shows more voters support humanitarian aid to Palestinians than military aid to Israel
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News At Binghamton University — known to attract Jews but not activists — students set up encampment
Some Jewish students helped erect the encampment. Others say pro-Palestinian activism is diminishing their college experience
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Opinion Columbia squandered ample opportunities to chart a path without involving police
The university had abundant resources to protect students and foster dialogue on campus, and failed.
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Opinion I’m a Harvard professor. The extremism of student protesters reminds me of the worst I saw as an undergraduate in the 1960s
Why can’t activists be idealistic but not hateful, selfless but not self-righteous?
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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
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Culture In Peter Yarrow’s legacy, an uneasy blend of Jewish values and personal transgressions
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News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
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Fast Forward Israel’s judicial overhaul is back. So are the protests.
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Opinion After 15 months of war, Israelis are all scaffolding, helping hold each other up
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
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Fast Forward House votes to sanction International Criminal Court leaders over Israel charges
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