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The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (Juan at Dawn) Excerpted from Dawn (Democracy for the Arab World Now) Israel’s total war on Gaza, following Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Oct. 7, has roiled higher education in the United States. The atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel two months ago have reverberated on many U.S. campuses, deeply traumatizing many Jewish students. But so too […]

Israel’s War on Gaza shouldn’t be America’s War ( Tomdispatch.com ) – One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes, this […]

US Scholars of Mideast dispute House Resolution 894’s Equation of anti-Zionism with Antisemitism Committee on Academic Freedom, North America, Middle East Studies Association | – Representative Mike Johnson Speaker of the House of Representatives   Representative Hakim Jeffries Minority Leader, House of Representatives   Dear Speaker Johnson and Minority Leader Jeffries,   We write on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association […]

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