PERSPECTIVES: Student Protests Reframed to Fit Antisemitic Narrative?

Colombia University faculty writing in The Guardian: “While we are deeply concerned about antisemitism, we are also disturbed by the ways (at this week’s Congressional hearing) — like those in December — (Congresspeople) used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda…. Most galling was the absence of any acknowledgment of the relentless devastation in Gaza: the urgent reason for the student protests that the committee caricatures and condemns as antisemitic.” Read their full commentary here.

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