Zionism Will Never Be a Solution to Antisemitism

Zionism has relied on strategic alliances with antisemitic ethnonationalists since its earliest days.

Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s War on Gaza

As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological Seminary, an ecumenical seminary affiliated with Columbia University that is one of the first schools to begin divesting from companies that “profit from war in Palestine/Israel.” Jones says divestment is an extension of Union’s “long policy of trying our best to bring our values, our core mission and our conscience to bear on how we invest our money,” and credits student activists with pushing the administration to action. Jones criticizes Columbia’s decision to arrest student protesters with a “police takeover” and “violent decampment,” in contrast to Union’s approach to student political expression. “We support students learning what it means to find their voice and speak out for justice and freedom,” she says.

To Confront Antisemitism, Stand With the Oppressed, Not Today’s Pharaohs

Groups like the ADL actually add fuel to antisemitism by conflating it with critiques of Israel.

What Happens When Universities Engage, Rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them?

After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail

NYPD arrested 282 protesters at Columbia and the City College of New York. Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement.

University Leaders are Teaching Us How Holocausts Happen

Most people, reasonably fearing arrest and its potential consequences, are then less likely to protest, less likely even to speak out. They look away from the violence, foreign and domestic, carried out by their government. They avoid asking how universities, supposedly society’s institutional stewards of humane values, might be complicit in the violence. Later, after many innocents have been murdered, they will claim ignorance about what was going on.

“Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism”: Police “Body-Slam” Jewish Dartmouth Prof. at Campus Gaza Protest

Gaza solidarity protests continue at college campuses across the nation — as does the police crackdown. This comes as more than 50 chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a statement condemning the violent arrests by police at campus protests. At Dartmouth College last week, police body-slammed professor and former chair of Jewish studies Annelise Orleck to the ground as she tried to protect her students. She was charged with criminal trespass and temporarily banned from portions of Dartmouth’s campus. She joins us to describe her ordeal and respond to claims conflating the protests’ anti-Zionist message with antisemitism. “People have to be able to talk about Palestine without being attacked by police,” says Orleck, who commends the students leading protests around the country. “Their bravery is tremendous and is inspiring. And they really feel like this is the moral issue of their time, that there’s a genocide going on and that they can’t ignore it.”

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