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Noam Chomsky: Palestine/Israel Among Biggest Issues on US Campuses [Other Voices]

By gmschivone December 5, 2011

Here’s Noam Chomsky on the enormously changed landscape on US campuses over the past twenty years surrounding the US/Israel-Palestine conflict. Among the issues discussed is the growing influence of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) groups and the petty isolation of pro-Israel groups on campuses. The following is a raw excerpt from dialogues with prominent…

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Occupying the occupiers [Other Voices]

By gmschivone November 8, 2011

Members of Jewish Voice for Peace’s youth wing, Young, Jewish and Proud, disrupted an event last night in New York City hosted by Birthright Israel-Next. According to their press release: Using the ‘human microphone’ or ‘people’s microphone’ made famous by the Occupy Wall Street protests they interrupted a Birthright Israel Next-sponsored event. The event featured…

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California to Palestine: Fasting in Solidarity | Other Voices

By gmschivone October 10, 2011

Ilana Rossoff is a daycare worker by day and political organizer by night. She recently graduated from Hampshire College, where she studied US History, race studies, and Jewish studies, and completed a senior thesis on the history of Jewish anti-Zionism (mostly) in the US. At Hampshire, was active in Students for Justice in Palestine, Student…

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Recently Convicted, 1 of the Irvine 10 | Other Voices

By gmschivone September 26, 2011

Taher Herzallah is one of the newly convicted students collectively known as the “Irvine 11”. Ten of the original eleven were prosecuted (one had his charges dropped) by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and, this past Friday, convicted of “disruption” and “conspiracy to disrupt” a public lecture by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the…

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A socialist ‘JewMaican’ for Palestine | Other Voices

By gmschivone September 12, 2011

Full Name: Haley Jennifer Joy Pessin Bio: Haley Pessin is a junior at Williams College in MA majoring in French and History. She thoroughly enjoys reading books, attending the theatre and classical music concerts, and consuming gelato. You identify as a “JewMaican.” Would you explain what led you to identify this way? Well, my father…

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