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Tag: Campus Protest

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Letter from Berkeley | What Do Campus Encampment Protesters Really Want?

Noach Phillips in Moment · 15 May

At the University of California's Berkeley campus, a diverse group of activists are part of an encampment protest advocating for peace and an end to the Israeli occupation in Gaza.

0 Antisemitism Education

Standing Up // Benny Shaevsky Standing Up to Anti-Semitic Agitators

Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter in Ami · 8 May

University of Michigan graduate Benny Shaevsky confronted pro-Hamas activists at his campus by removing an illegal poster criticizing Israel.

0 Education Politics

Columbia’s Rashid Khalidi and UCLA’s David Myers on Protest and Repression on Campus

Peter Beinart in The Beinart Notebook · 7 May

Columbia's Rashid Khalidi and UCLA's David Myers will discuss protests and repression on campus, focusing on the crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

0 Israel Education

I teach Israel studies at NYU. We are importing the worst of Israel and Palestine to our campuses

Lihi Ben Shitrit in Forward · 29 Apr

Lihi Ben Shitrit, a professor of Israel studies at NYU, criticizes the adoption of extreme Israeli and Palestinian political discourses on U.S. campuses following recent events in the region.

0 Education Antisemitism

UC Berkeley is under federal investigation over the recent disruption of an Israeli speaker

Andrew Lapin in Forward · 6 Mar

The University of California, Berkeley is now facing a federal discrimination investigation following the disruption of an Israeli speaker's appearance on campus by violent anti-Israel protesters.

0 Politics Communities

What Happens When You Teach at Columbia and Reject Hamas

Shai Davidai in Tablet · 14 Feb

The author discusses their experience of speaking out against Hamas and student organizations that support it while teaching at Columbia University.

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Suspended at Columbia, pro-Palestinian protesters fill streets outside campus gates

LMarkoe in Forward · 15 Nov 2023

Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside Columbia University in New York to protest the university's suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

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MIT partially suspends students who occupied building for pro-Palestinian ‘die-in’

LMarkoe in Forward · 13 Nov 2023

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that it will suspend a number of students from non-academic activities after they participated in a pro-Palestinian die-in protest.

0 Israel Politics

Students for Justice in Palestine Builds Support With In-Your-Face Push

Forward · 20 May 2015

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a decentralized organization with autonomous chapters on college campuses, funded by small university grants and known for its protest tactics like erecting apartheid walls and mock eviction notices to raise awareness about the Palestinian cause.