A thousand Israeli students have signed a letter, calling on the Harvard Crimson, the school’s student-run newspaper, to move its office off of stolen land.
This was done in response to the paper’s embrace of the anti-Israel BDS movement.
In April of this year, the paper published an editorial that stated, in part:
In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanction and a Free PalestineWhen oppression strikes anywhere in the world, resistance movements reverberate globally. The desire for rightful justice spreads, like wildfire, moving us to act, to speak, to write, and right our past wrongs.Over the past year, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee has strived to do just that. Amid escalating tensions between Israel and Palestine, PSC has hosted informational programming, organized weekly demonstrations of support through “Keffiyeh Thursdays,” and even installed a colorful, multi-panel “Wall of Resistance” in favor of Palestinian freedom and sovereignty.In at least one regard, PSC’s spirited activism has proven successful: It has forced our campus — and our editorial board — to once again wrestle with what both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called Israel’s “crimes against humanity” in the region.
Following the publication of the editorial, two student editors dissented. See their stories here and here.
The Israeli students now calling out the Crimson are essentially using their own woke ideology against them.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
1,000 Israeli students call on Harvard Crimson to move office from ‘stolen lands’Over 1,000 Israeli students penned a letter to the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University’s newspaper, calling for the editorial board to move its office off of lands “occupied” from indigenous tribes in a move to highlight the Crimson’s hypocrisy in supporting the BDS movement in an April editorial.Students for Justice in America, who are supported by Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin, claimed that the Harvard Crimson’s offices are situated on lands forcefully taken from the Massachusetts people, which is the indigenous nation of these territories. “The land that the Harvard Crimson operates… is territory that belongs to the Massachusett (indigenous) people. This land, like much other territory in the Boston and Cambridge regions, was taken from these native tribes during its earliest conquest by French and British colonialists and then the American military.”“Ironically, on April 29th of this past year your Editorial Board published an essay in support of the BDS movement and its ‘blunt approach’ stating that ‘as a board, we are proud to finally lend our support to both Palestinian liberation and BDS – and we call on everyone to do the same,’” the letter continued.
Couldn’t this concept be expanded to include Harvard’s entire campus?
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