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Jewish students at Columbia University penned an open letter this week defending Israel in the wake of intense pro-Palestinian protests on campus that delivered waves of antisemitism., the New York City Police Department mobilized against an encampment of anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University who had taken control of a building before demanding that the school provide them with meals.
“The New York Police Department reportedly began a raid on Columbia University hours after the university restricted access to its campus,” noted the report.access to its campus in the aftermath of anti-Israel protesters seizing control of Hamilton Hall, an academic building, in the early hours of Tuesday morning,” it added.In the open letter released on Wednesday, Jewish students, many of whom signed their name, declared themselves “proud of Israel” while defending Zionism.
In every generation, the Jewish People are blamed and scapegoated as responsible for the societal evil of the time. In Iran and in the Arab world, we were ethnically cleansed for our presumed ties to the ‘Zionist entity.’ In Russia, we endured state-sponsored violence and were ultimately massacred for being capitalists. In Europe, we were the victims of genocide because we were communists and not European enough.
The letter not only celebrated Israel’s defense of Jewish people but also it being a democracy in the Middle-East that also serves as home to Muslims and Christians. It concluded with a call for peace and understanding. “We came to Columbia because we wanted to expand our minds and engage in complex conversations. While campus may be riddled with hateful rhetoric and simplistic binaries now, it is never too late to start repairing the fractures and begin developing meaningful relationships across political and religious divides,” it wrote.We hope you will join us in earnestly pursuing peace, truth, and empathy. Together we can repair our campus,” it concluded.
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