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William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social |
Hillel is the organization on campuses where Jewish students eat, pray, and gather together. Calling for a university to cut ties with Hillel is explicitly antisemitic. Not even a close call.
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Daniel Malmer
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Something I don't understand and maybe you can shed light on is what do campus pro-Palestinian folks think "Zionism" means? To me, it seems like they use the word to describe something other than its original meaning.
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wilp
@wilp.bsky.social
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does hillel support a two-state solution?
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Yastreblyansky
@yastreblyansky.bsky.social
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That's not what's being asked. Branches are being asked to break with the international organization, which demands fealty to Israeli government. Many branches have already done this, with good reason.
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Jolly Jonny ❤️🇮🇱❤️
@defendingthewest.bsky.social
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Looks like some people get upset that Jews no longer walk silently to their deaths while the world does nothing but nowadays defend themselves when barbaric atrocities are committed against them. Tough.
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Staid Winnow
@staidwinnow.bsky.social
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Is Hillel *International* the student body or some external organization (that presumably supports the student body)?
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Shelley Powers
@burningbird.net
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These are absurd demands
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Trampoline Academy
@trampschool.bsky.social
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They want to stop awkward, single Jews from meeting each other in college. It’s the most proactive form of genetic cleansing you can achieve without a Time Machine.
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Peter Jeffe
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Has the recent exposure of how Hillel International works with the Israeli government to advocate for it and suppress other viewpoints on campus changed your opinion on this? It seems to me that advocating for a foreign government is very different from providing cultural and religious services.
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Half Cocked
@halfcockedlaw.bsky.social
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I don't know enough to have a firm stance, but there's enough out there to make a defensible case that this is about Hillel's actions and not that they're Jewish. palestinelegal.org/hillels-acti...
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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice
@lizzzs.bsky.social
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It seems to me that demands are a place to begin dialog, not an end to negotiation. Assuming the university participates rather than, you know, just calling the cops.
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rex 🦖
@rexs1gma.bsky.social
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Hillel is merely a front for zealots
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Liz Roemer
@lizroemer.bsky.social
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Hillel International is explicitly pro-Israel. Jewish students are not welcome there if they do not support Israel. It is disturbing to me, as a Jewish person, that the alleged communal home for Jewish students on campus requires one political view. Not all Jewish people support Israel.
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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how do you feel about all the other requests or you're hoping everything gets thrown out
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Diogenes of Snarkadia
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Adam Shprintzen
@veghistory.bsky.social
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It also gets at one of the tensions in how people interact with anti-Zionism in the US: while Israel is not tied to everyone’s sense of Jewishnesss, it certainly is tied to many people’s lived and material Jewish experience.
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nicely toasted.
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No. It's not. Hillel is a zionist organization. Theyre not asking for a ban of jewish groups or jewish practices or displays of judaism.
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@surfingthepast.bsky.social
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It’s not anti semitic. It may be misguided or a violation of academic freedom. But if they said “cut ties with Neuman Centers because of their policies on abortion” that would not be anti Catholic.
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Philip N Cohen
@philipncohen.bsky.social
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Eat, pray, gather, and "develop a meaningful and enduring relationship to Israel." Hillel has been a strong Israeli advocacy presence on every campus I've studied and worked at.
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Wonkish
@wonkish.bsky.social
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Riight.
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LeAnne
@ennael.bsky.social
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Really? That is all? Not according to the organization.
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Ali Fleih
@alifleih.bsky.social
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Anti-Zionists are typically ostracized at Hillel, as the organization has Standards of Partnership that easily exclude groups like INN & JVP, as well as any group supporting boycott & divestment of Israel. The criticism is directed against this unconditional support for Israel, not anything Jewish.
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Are You Being Detained
@sailbarque.bsky.social
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You would think the protesters would focus solely on calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza. Instead, they constantly show what they're really about.
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Justin Noormand
@justin-noormand.bsky.social
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This is an unforced error on the part of these particular protestors. That said, they can be told “look, no we’re not doing that because that completely infringes on the freedom of other students” at the negotiating table and they’ll probably agree.
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Katharine
@halekoa.bsky.social
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Agreed 👍
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Mike Cozens
@michaelccozens.bsky.social
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Conflating Zionism and Judaism is an antisemitic act, bigot.
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Gucci Wolf aka Glitch Girl Guro
@wraithwave.bsky.social
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Bethany Albertson
@albertsonb2.bsky.social
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asking for divestment - yep, asking for the university to cut off spaces for Jewish students to congregate - nope. This seems so obvious.
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Zander Furnas
@alexanderfurnas.com
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I think some folks are definitely coming at this from an anti-Semitic place, but also given Hillel’s explicit anti BDS positions and actions it’s not wild to me that pro-Palestine supporters of divestment view Hillel as the opposition. I’d much prefer calls for these unis to join Open Hillel tho
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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL
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If you say that on bluesky, ten accounts with hammers and sickles will call you a genocide denier and put you on the zionist scum list. There's no appeals process
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manes
@michaelanes.bsky.social
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But from Hillel: "Israel is at the heart of Hillel’s work. Our goal is to inspire every Jewish college student to develop a meaningful and enduring relationship to Israel and to Israelis." Can't one be anti-this-type-of-Zionist & not be antisemitic? (I'm not personally Hillel knowledgeable)
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Josh Busby
@busbyj2.bsky.social
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I support efforts to address Palestinian suffering but asking for a university to cut ties with Hillel is wrong, unjustifiable and simply bad strategy.
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@okayrobot.bsky.social
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It specifically says Hillel International, I don’t think we can assume that they are asking for the local chapter to be shut down. There is at least one campus chapter that has already cut ties, they may be looking at that example. HI has in the past shut down classes it didn’t like, disbanded
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Jonathan Gilligan
@jgilligan.org
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Hillel International prohibits its campus chapters from allowing speakers who challenge Zionism.
Jewish students who are critical of or oppose Zionism are unwelcome.
Many Jews reject Hillel because of its intolerance toward anti-Zionist Judaism.
www.jewishvoicesnj.org/articles/swa...
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Allison MacDuffee
@studiousgal.bsky.social
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I agree with you. Hillel is no more sinister than Newman House (RC) OR Canterbury House (Anglican/Episcopalian).
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Renee DiResta 🆒
@noupside.bsky.social
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Their demands for what, though? They’ll stop…protesting?…if the university does these things?
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Santiago Z Reich
@szreich.bsky.social
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This demand is petty, foolish, and won't be met. UCSC is a public university. It cannot discriminate against Hillel on the basis of viewpoint or religion. SJP has a 1A right to say whatever it wants, including demand that UCSC take facially unconstitutional action. But UCSC cannot do it.
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Beadle, Society for the New Art
@saraht74.bsky.social
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My memory of campus Hillel is that it was inclusive, simply a Jewish student center that facilitated Jewish cultural life on campus in a number of different forms. However, I do note that it is has taken a number of more politicized stances in recent years: no anti-Zionists, no BDS supporters.
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HenryHill1
@henryhill1.bsky.social
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They already have this in Palestine, why not just go there.
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El Al-Killjoy
@capitalcrimes.bsky.social
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Hillel should probably denounce the genocide then. Have they?
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@littlefonzie920.bsky.social
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No it isn’t. Hillel may have started like that, but they have a history of being intolerant to other beliefs.
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