Archiv: Schulen / Hochschulen / Schüler / Schülerinnen / Studierende / schools / students / pupils


08.11.2024 - 20:12 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Knesset Passes McCarthyistic Law Allowing Far-Right Government to Fire Teachers

The bill was attacked during the debate in the plenum by Hadash-Ta’al MK Ahmad Tibi, who retweeted a statement by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) arguing that its purpose was “to regulate the discourse in schools and to harm teachers whose statements and worldview do not coincide with those of the education minister and the political parties controlling the Education Ministry.”

“The purpose of the law is to threaten teachers and principals of Arab schools, to mark them and make them a target for surveillance and persecution,” the rights group stated, arguing that the tools already at its disposal before the current law were “adequate and sufficient.” “The law severely violates the rights to expression, employment and pedagogical autonomy of teachers and administrators,” it added. The teachers’ unions also opposed the bill.

29.10.2024 - 13:30 [ VoteAgainstGenocide.com ]

Vote Against Genocide: American Academic Letter

As American scholars and higher education administrators, we are deeply committed to the pursuit of truth, justice, and the common good—both in our classrooms and research, and in the broader world we engage with daily. Since October 2023, the Biden-Harris administration has failed to uphold fundamental human rights and the principles of knowledge, truth, and humanity. Their material support for genocidal atrocities has devastated entire communities in Palestine, leading to the loss of countless families in Gaza over the past year, and undermined the core values the United States professes to uphold globally. Under Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, every university has been bombed and destroyed in Gaza, more journalists have been killed than in any other conflict in recorded modern history, and the death toll is projected to exceed 186,000 according to The Lancet. Under Biden-Harris, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has prosecuted violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention, and declared Israel‘s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, unlawful, along with its associated settlement apartheid regime.

This election, on November 5th, the Democratic Party—once again with Kamala Harris at its center—has repeatedly sought our votes by positioning itself as the „lesser evil,“ urging us to abandon our moral convictions out of fear of a second Trump term under Republican leadership. Let us be clear: there is no „lesser evil“ when both parties are complicit in the same atrocities. And there is no lesser evil when they are complicit in genocide. Kamala Harris has actively funded and endorsed genocide, and we cannot reward such leadership with a Harris-Walz ticket. While the Republican Party under a Trump-Vance ticket offers no meaningful alternative, it is the Democratic Party, under Kamala Harris, that has actively supported and sanctioned these international crimes against humanity since October 2023. They must not be rewarded.

29.10.2024 - 13:20 [ AbandonHarris.com ]

Abandon Harris Campaign’s Academic Letter Urges Nationwide Vote Against Genocide

The Abandon Harris Campaign announces that an academic letter calling on Americans to vote third party in the upcoming election is quickly gaining traction across higher education institutions nationwide. Titled “A Call by American Academics to Vote Against Genocide on November 5, 2024: Vote to Abandon Harris – Vote Third Party,” the principled letter condemns the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel’s actions in Gaza and urges voters to hold Kamala Harris accountable at the ballot box. The letter and its signatories can be found at voteagainstgenocide.org.

02.10.2024 - 22:32 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel censors reporting on military sites hit by Iran, obscuring extent of damage

Several missiles were also located near the Dead Sea, near where Israeli nuclear facilities are located. It wasn‘t clear whether they were intercepted by Israel or the US, according to the report.

One missile hit in the vicinity of a school in the town of Gedera, with photos of the aftermath showing a massive crater in the ground and major structural damage to the nearby buildings.

09.05.2024 - 11:10 [ NLTimes.nl ]

32 Gaza-support protesters arrested in Amsterdam; No clash with police in Utrecht

(09.05.2024)

There were again pro-Palestinian protests at universities in Amsterdam and Utrecht overnight.

09.05.2024 - 10:45 [ NLTimes.nl ]

Video: Amsterdam riot police strike Gaza protestors as university occupation broken up

(08.95.2024)

Police in Amsterdam began breaking up the occupation of University of Amsterdam buildings in the city center on Wednesday. The Binnengasthuis and other university buildings were squatted a day earlier by hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had marched there from the university’s Roeterseiland campus on Tuesday afternoon.

09.05.2024 - 10:09 [ Associated Press / Youtube ]

Police make arrests, break up pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at University of Amsterdam

(07.05.2024)

Some 125 activists were arrested as police broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in the early hours of Tuesday, as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread into Europe.

09.05.2024 - 09:52 [ Guardian News / Youtube ]

Pro-Palestinian protests spread across European universities

(07.05.2024)

Demonstrations have taken place in Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam and Belgium, where students have set up encampments and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Violent clashes erupted in Amsterdam and authorities said at least 125 people were detained. In Berlin, students formed a human chain to protect their camp while police detained several people. The protests are in response to Israel‘s bombardment of Gaza.

08.05.2024 - 21:26 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Polizei räumt Protestcamp an FU Berlin

(07.05.2024)

Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister Kai Wegner (CDU) hat die FU-Besetzung durch pro-palästinensische Aktivisten verurteilt. „Wir dürfen auch an den Hochschulen nicht wegschauen, wenn antisemitische Parolen und Judenhass an den Universitäten verbreitet werden“, sagte der CDU-Politiker am Dienstag. Er sei der Universität für ihr Vorgehen sehr dankbar: „Ich finde dieses konsequente Vorgehen völlig richtig.“

Auch Wissenschaftssenatorin Ina Czyborra (SPD) verurteilte die Besetzung des FU-Hofes scharf.

08.05.2024 - 21:15 [ GraphicNews.com ]

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep Europe

German police broke up a protest by between sixty and eighty pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard on Freie Universität Berlin’s campus on Tuesday, May 7.

“An occupation is not acceptable on the FU Berlin campus,” university president Guenter Ziegler said.

05.05.2024 - 07:31 [ Fox News ]

More than 2,100 arrested at anti-Israel protests nationwide as police clear college encampments

– The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

– More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.

05.05.2024 - 06:37 [ Middle East Eye ]

Debunking three myths about pro-Palestine student protests in the US

Middle East Eye examines three of the most pervasive myths that have sought to discredit the pro-Palestine movement on campuses

04.05.2024 - 11:05 [ CNN ]

Australian student protests show US campus divisions over Gaza war are going global

n the past 10 days, pro-Palestinian protest camps have appeared at seven universities around Australia – from Melbourne and Sydney in the country’s southeast, to Adelaide in its center, and Perth along the western coast.

They were erected in solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli siege in Gaza and student protesters in the United States.

And it’s not just Australia.

04.05.2024 - 10:24 [ France24.com ]

Police remove pro-Palestinian student protesters from Paris‘s Sciences Po university

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal‘s office said such protests would be dealt with using „total rigour“, adding that 23 university sites had been „evacuated“ on Thursday.

04.05.2024 - 09:15 [ Allie Wong / USA Today ]

I‘m a student who was arrested at a Columbia protest. I am not a hero, nor am I a villain.

Students in dorms craned their necks and shakily stretched their iPhones out windows to observe the impending attack.

We clung tighter to one another as they approached us, and seized us like rag dolls and slammed us into the hallowed ground of brick and concrete. But unlike rag dolls, we bleed, we crack, we bruise, we feel.

04.05.2024 - 08:47 [ USA Today ]

Encampment raid at NYU, hunger strike at Princeton as campus battles rage across US: Live updates

Arrests piled up at several colleges, 14 Princeton University students launched a hunger strike, and police raided an NYU encampment Friday in the latest battles on college campuses that have pitted university officials against their own students over the war in Gaza.

02.05.2024 - 00:20 [ Jewish Voice for Peace at UCLA (@jvpatucla) / Instagram ]

If you can’t join the encampment but are looking for other ways to support, consider these options!

01.05.2024 - 19:11 [ Middle East Eye ]

America‘s new generation of student protesters is giving hope to Palestinians

We raise our hats out of respect for them, as these protests in the universities and streets of the western world and the Global South keep the flame of hope burning in the souls of our people who long for freedom and justice.

These protests indicate profound, radical changes that separate an ageing American generation that blindly supports Israel and a new generation that promotes justice in Palestine and demands an end to the Israeli occupation and to the war on Gaza.

They represent the future of America and its bright face, the emergence of which we have long awaited.

01.05.2024 - 17:05 [ SJP AT UCLA (@sjpatucla) / instagram ]

UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release

For over seven hours, zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community.

Campus safety left within minutes, external security the university hired for “backup” watched, filmed, and laughed on the side as the immediate danger inflicted upon us escalated. Law enforcement simply stood at the edge of the lawn and refused to budge as we screamed for their help. The only means of protection we had was each other. WE KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE.

01.05.2024 - 16:25 [ Indybay.org ]

UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment Press Release

For over seven hours, zionist aggressors hurled gas canisters, sprayed pepper spray, and threw fireworks and bricks into our encampment. They broke our barriers repeatedly, clearly in an attempt to kill our community.

Campus safety left within minutes, external security the university hired for “backup” watched, filmed, and laughed on the side as the immediate danger inflicted upon us escalated. Law enforcement simply stood at the edge of the lawn and refused to budge as we screamed for their help. The only means of protection we had was each other. WE KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE.

Despite the danger, we refused to engage standing by the principles of our encampment—self defense. For all the school’s pretense of student safety, we have experienced an unprecedented amount of violence and hatred while they stood by. The university’s hypocrisy all too apparent, as signs of this escalation were reported, documented, and indicated early on. The zionist attacks, their use of chemical weaponry, their hatred, their destruction, are but a microcosm of the genocide in Gaza. The university would rather see us dead than divest.

01.05.2024 - 08:20 [ Columbia Encampment / Telegram ]

NOTICE: As the night progresses, we have received word from someone arrested inside of Hamilton that NYPD stormed the building and proceeded to tackle and body slam protesters, and attacked them with batons, shields, and sound grenades. We ask all Columbia affiliates in proximity to NYPD to continue recording whatever they can.

01.05.2024 - 08:04 [ Columbia Encampment / Telegram ]

We have put up the most glorious fight. We did not allow the movement to end with a false deal from Columbia.

Keep all eyes on your comrades, mobilize to Columbia. If you are free, come to protect the encampment.

30.04.2024 - 10:48 [ @dbattistella@mstdn.ca / Mastodon ]

Student protesters at #UTAustin are being hit with pepper spray as they attempt to push police and state troopers off campus.

c/o Peter Holley, Texas Monthly

30.04.2024 - 00:30 [ MPowerChange.org ]

Statement in solidarity with student protests for Gaza

We, the undersigned organizations, stand in solidarity with the students nationwide and globally who are bravely protesting in encampments and otherwise to condemn Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza–actions which human rights organizations, a federal U.S. court, and the International Court of Justice have said “plausibly” constitute genocide.

(,,,)

In solidarity,

350.org US

18 Million Rising

198 methods

Adalah Justice Project

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

AF3IRM

Afghans For A Better Tomorrow

Alliance of Baptists

American Baptist Churches USA

American Friends Service Committee

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)

American Muslim Bar Association

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action)

Arab American Civic Council

Arab American Institute

Asian American Advocacy Fund

Better to Speak

Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without Walls

Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU)

Blue Future

Borderlands for Equity

Borderlands Resource Initiative

Brooklyn For Peace

CAIR Action

CAIR California

CAIR Minnesota

CAIR Oklahoma

CAIR-WA

California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Cameroon American Council

Carceral Tech Resistance Network

Ceasefire Democrats

Ceasefire Now NJ

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Protest Law & Litigation @ Partnership for Civil Justice Fund

Chicago Area Peace Action

Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy

Christians for a Free Palestine

Civic Ark

Civil Liberties Defense Center

Clockshop

CommonDefense.us

Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP)

Council on American-Islamic Relations

CWA-News Guild Local 38010

Defending Rights & Dissent

Delaware Democratic Socialists of America

Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights

Detention Watch Network

Disciples Palestine Israel Network

Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM)

Doctors Against Genocide

Dream Defenders

Dutch Scholars for Palestine

Eindhoven Students 4 Palestine

En Conjunto

Faith for Black Lives

Faith in Texas

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Fight for the Future

For All

Freedom Oklahoma

Freedom To Thrive

Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)

Future Coalition

Gen-Z for Change

Gender Justice Action and Gender Justice

Get Free

Global Campaign to Reclaim People‘s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power & Stop Impunity

Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine

Green New Deal Network

Greenpeace USA

Hawai‘i for Palestine

Health Justice Commons

Highlander Research and Education Center

Hindus for Human Rights

Historians for Peace and Democracy

IfNotNow Movement

IfNotNow New Jersey

Immigrant Defense Project

Immigrant Justice Network

Immigrants Act Now

Indiana Center for Middle East Peace

Institute for Policy Studies New Internationalism Project

Interfaith Ceasefire

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network

International Mayan League

InterReligious Task Force on Central America

Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)

Islamophobia Studies Center

Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace-Hawai’i

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ)

Just Foreign Policy

Justice Democrats

Just Futures Law

Justice for All

Kairos USA

Libyan American Alliance

LittleSis / Public Accountability Initiative

Living Water Inclusive Catholic Community

Long Island Progressive Coalition

Make the Road Nevada

Malaya Georgia

Massachusetts Peace Action

Mennonite Action

Mennonite Action WA

Migrant Roots Media

Minnesota Peace Project

Mondoweiss

Movement for Black Lives

MPower Change Action Fund

MSA West

Muslim Advocates

Muslim Community Network

Muslim Counterpublics Lab

Muslim Power Building Project

Muslims for Just Futures

Muslims for Progressive Values

National Arab American Women’s Association (NAAWA)

National Iranian American Council

National Lawyers Guild

National Lawyers Guild – St. Louis Chapter

National Partnership for New Americans

New Hampshire Veterans for Peace

New York City Veterans For Peace

The New Justice Project Minnesota

North American Students of Cooperation

No Separate Justice

The Oakland Institute

Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity/Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth

Our Revolution

Palestine American League

Palestine Legal

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Partners for Palestine

Pax Christi New York State

Pax Christi USA

Pediatricians for Palestine

Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies

Presbyterian Church (USA), Office of Public Witness

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)

Project ANAR

Project South

Peace Action

Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice

Reparation Education Project

Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment

Rising Majority

RootsAction Education Fund

The Social Justice Center

Sound Vision

Starr King School for the Ministry

Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the University of Hawai’i (SFJP)

Sunrise Movement

Sur Legal Collaborative

TakeAction Minnesota

Tech Justice Law Project

The Gathering for Justice

The Hague Peace Projects

Transnational Institute

The Uncommitted National Movement

UndocuBlack Network

Unitarian Universalist Association

Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship

Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice

Unitarian Universalist Mass Action

Unitarian Universalist Peace Ministry Network

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Unitarian Universalist Young Adults for Climate Justice (UUYACJ)

Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East

United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network

United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR)

Until Freedom

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Veterans For Peace

We Are All America

The Whatcom Peace and Justice Center

Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center

Working Families Party

World BEYOND War

Young Democrats of America Black Caucus

Young Democrats of America Environmental Caucus

Youth Leadership Institute

30.04.2024 - 00:24 [ Huffington Post ]

185 Human Rights Groups Demand Universities End Crackdowns on Gaza Protests

A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations.

29.04.2024 - 23:20 [ National Nurses United ]

Nation’s largest nurses union stands in solidarity with campus protesters facing crackdowns and arrests

Nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU), the country’s largest union of registered nurses, stand in solidarity with student and faculty protesters at campuses across the United States facing a violent crackdown for speaking out against the mass killings and public health catastrophe in Gaza. Amid the on-going Israeli military campaign that has killed, injured, and displaced tens of thousands of Gazan civilians, nurses remain steadfast in our belief in the human rights to health, safety, free speech, collective action, and protest. NNU has called for and still calls for a permanent and lasting ceasefire in Gaza and the swift delivery of humanitarian aid in Palestine.

29.04.2024 - 22:12 [ Jewish Council Australia ]

Jewish Council: University encampments are no threat to Jews

Last week students in Australia established encampments at their universities in solidarity with Palestinians. These join the dozens of solidarity camps established across the US and elsewhere in recent weeks. Like their peers, Australian students are calling on their institutions to end relationships with weapons companies that are enabling Israeli war crimes, and urging our government to sanction Israel and cut military ties.

The Jewish Council of Australia strongly rejects the claims that these protests are a threat to Jewish students and staff.

Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 200 days. In the past week, new evidence of mass unmarked civilian graves was uncovered. Palestinians in the West Bank are also suffering at the hands of the Israeli military and violent settlers. Students are right to peacefully protest these mounting crimes and should not be silenced by their institutions or by other organisations that erroneously claim these protests are antisemitic.

29.04.2024 - 22:07 [ University World News ]

Sydney students join wave of US university encampments

(25.04.2024)

Students have set up camp at Australia’s University of Sydney on the back of pro-Palestinian encampments and demonstrations that have swept through United States institutions and led to mass arrests and cancelled classes, writes Daniella White for The Sydney Morning Herald.

28.04.2024 - 01:12 [ Seattle Times ]

Crackdowns at 3 college protests lead to nearly 200 arrests

Nearly 200 protesters were arrested Saturday at Northeastern University, Arizona State University and Indiana University, according to officials, as colleges across the country struggle to quell growing pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments on campus.

28.04.2024 - 00:55 [ Ifnotnow Boston ]

JVP BOSTON AND IFNOTNOW BOSTON STAND WITH NORTHEASTERN STUDENT ACTIVISTS AND DENOUNCE FALSE CLAIMS OF ANTISEMITISM

As a new anti-war movement has sprung on campuses across the country, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Boston and IfNotNow Boston support the student encampment movement in solidarity with Palestine across this city and the country. We denounce Northeastern University’s discipline of student activists and Boston Police Department’s arrest of peaceful protesters. We denounce false claims from the Northeastern administration that protests were “infiltrated by professional organizers” who used “virulent antisemitic slurs.”

Video posted to X by GBH News reporter Tori Bedford clearly shows the incident in question, in which a pro-Israel counter-protester, holding an Israeli flag, attempts to be disruptive by yelling “kill the Jews.” He goes on to accuse student protesters of being funded by the Qatari government and imply that they are not US citizens. By using this event to slander their own students, the Northeastern University administration is acting in incredible bad faith. They owe pro-Palestine student organizers an apology.

28.04.2024 - 00:45 [ NBC Boston ]

Police raid encampments, arrest over 100 people during protests at Northeastern University

Mass State Police said 102 people were arrested and face trespassing and disorderly conduct charges and are being transported to the Suffolk County House of Correction to be booked and processed.

Northeastern University released a statement on Saturday morning through social media saying approximately 100 people had been detained and the ones without a university ID were arrested.

27.04.2024 - 18:52 [ ItsGoingDown.org ]

“We Are Not Afraid of You”: Voices from Inside the Growing Anti-War Movement Sweeping US Campuses

On this special episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the country that are taking part in the exploding movement of anti-war encampments and occupations sweeping across US campuses in solidarity with Palestine.

27.04.2024 - 18:42 [ FacultyforPalestine.education ]

APRIL 22 Letter from Jewish Faculty Against the Weaponization of Antisemitism

Dear President Mills and Provost Dopico,

We write this public letter as Jewish faculty at NYU requesting that the university administration discontinue its practice of relying on specious charges of antisemitism when adjudicating matters of student conduct and faculty discipline concerning pro-Palestinian speech and protest. This matter has particular urgency as just this morning a coalition of NYU students has established an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, and already NYU has taken steps to limit and constrain their speech and mobility.

We reject outright the administration’s insistence that criticism of Israeli state policy is inherently antisemitic and so constitutes discrimination. There is nothing Jewish about supporting Israel’s destruction of Gaza or about the US bombs that have killed more than 10,000 children there, nor is it antisemitic to denounce Israeli state violence or to protest American imperialism. Moreover, by adopting a cheapened idea of “antisemitic” hate speech defined by the very same right wing political figures who have given energy and legitimacy to neo-fascist groups across the US and to the McCarthyite anti-intellectual assault on higher education unfolding today, the university degrades the discourse of antisemitism itself. With this in mind, we request that the university reverse all punitive Office of Equal Opportunity decisions in disciplinary proceedings that have depended upon the erroneous equation of anti-Israel speech with antisemitism.

27.04.2024 - 12:00 [ New York Times ]

The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned

Those young demonstrators had come of age seeing continual — and effective — protests during the civil rights movement and national mourning after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A year earlier King staked out his opposition to the war, saying that while he wasn’t attempting “to make North Vietnam or the National Liberation Front paragons of virtue,” he wanted to underscore his belief “that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money, like some demonic, destructive suction tube.” He said he was “compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and attack it as such.”

27.04.2024 - 03:33 [ Washington Post ]

Secret meetings, social chatter: How Columbia students sparked a nationwide revolt

“We talked about what it was like to recruit people and join, and what it meant to stand in solidarity together, and what it would look like if these camps started popping up everywhere,” said Soph Askanase, 21-year-old junior at Barnard College who was arrested at Columbia.

What followed was the start of what historians now call one of the most consequential student uprisings the nation has seen in recent times.

27.04.2024 - 03:09 [ Jacobin Magazine ]

Israelism Is a Powerful Indictment of Pro-Apartheid Indoctrination

(June 22, 2023)

After the movie was over, Simone Zimmerman and director Eric Axelman sat on the edge of the stage and took questions from the audience. One of the questions was from a Palestinian-American man who asked about how to respond to people who took offense when phrases like “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” were used to describe the treatment of Palestinians.

In his response, Axelman pointed out that recent polling shows that more than a third of American Jews under the age of forty agree with the statement, “Israel is an apartheid state.” The message is starting to get through. It’s about time.

27.04.2024 - 02:55 [ Israelismfilm.com ]

Israelism

Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel‘s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken.

They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers fed them as children.

27.04.2024 - 02:45 [ Forward.com ]

Were young American Jews lied to about Israel? A new documentary says yes

(February 24, 2023)

From directors Eric Axelman and Sam Eilertsen, Israelism follows two millennial Jews — Simone Zimmerman, co-founder of IfNotNow and Eitan, an American former IDF soldier who didn’t want to use his last name in the documentary — as they talk about becoming disenchanted with the Israel they were taught to defend and believe in growing up within the American Jewish system. (Filmmakers Axelman and Eilertsen are also millennial Jews, and in a director’s statement, Axelman wrote about their own, similar arc with Israel.)

24.04.2024 - 05:10 [ NBC News / Youtube ]

Campus protests spread around the country

From coast to coast, calls to end the Israel-Hamas war are spreading on college campuses.