Why do all those US universities have dealings with Israel?
All those student protests on the US seem to be about stopping their universities from supporting the Israel government. But supporting a foreign government is not a normal thing for a university to do, why do they do it? Is there some educational or research resource they get?
I will try to be as neutral as I can, though it seems impossible in this space.
A lot of Jewish people live outside of Israel for reasons going way back in history, we won’t get into the details of that now. Many of them remain closely tied with family / community / culture / religious practices & beliefs in Israel. These folks are sometimes called the Diaspora.
Some of them live in the United States (and are US citizens) and some of them are very successful / influential. Like almost any other demographic group, some of them can be found on the boards of colleges and universities, corporations, etc.
And some of these folks are still very much invested in Israel and care about what is going on over there, like other folks in the Diaspora.
I hope that helps. I am not taking a side with this answer, just trying to provide some general context on the how we got here.
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The formation of modern Israel was born out of millennia of Jewish history, emerging as a proposed sanctuary for a people who had faced persecution in many corners of the world. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the rise of Zionism, a movement that sought to establish a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. How did global events, particularly World War II and the Holocaust, shape the path to Israel's establishment? And in its early years, how did Israel confront and overcome the myriad challenges it faced?
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