Why Do Campus Protesters Want to #DropHillel?
“Drop Hillel” states its goals as exposing Hillel as being explicitly Zionists, building alternative, non-Zionist campus organizations and delegitimizing Hillel as an authority on antisemitism.
“Drop Hillel” states its goals as exposing Hillel as being explicitly Zionists, building alternative, non-Zionist campus organizations and delegitimizing Hillel as an authority on antisemitism.
Protests on college campuses last year had myriad effects on Jewish students. Some are hesitant to go back to school, while maintaining hope for a return to normalcy.
JVP— which was founded by three friends in 1996—didn’t start off as explicitly anti-Zionist. Julia Caplan, one of the founders, says the fact that it does now reflects “a change in the political times.”
Has some anti-Israel activism at Harvard crossed the red line into antisemitic? The answer is an emphatic yes.
Students at Columbia, UCLA, and Tufts offer first-hand accounts of pro-Palestinian protests, campus encampments and antisemitism.