(JEWISH GROUP) The left has an Israel problem.Does that mean colleges have an anti-Semitism problem?
THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!! RESPECT!
Recently JTA reported a story about an alternative students guide published by student activists at Tufts University that labels Israel a white supremacist state. The so-called disorientation guide also reduced the universitys Hillel to a Zionist organization that offers nothing of value to the private campuss diversity or culture.
The authors of the guide might deny that, of course. But what else do you make of a guide to campus diversity that does not discuss Jewish social, cultural or religious life? And one that takes at face value complaints from an African-American organization that a Hillel-sponsored event about gun control was meant to exploit black people for their own pro-Israel agenda?
After all, whats a Jewish organization doing promoting liberal causes, right?
The conflation of Jewish and Zionist (and racist and colonialist, while were at it) is hardly a new thing on the left, although the guide was a pretty stark example of an entire minority group on campus being erased or devalued with a few taps of a keyboard by those who purport to stand up for religious and ethnic minorities. Thats why we considered it an important story, and thats why we published it.
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A very complex, but interesting article nonetheless.