NYJW Opinion

Seymour Reich’s “Rebuttal” (Letters, May 20) contends that one can be a “lover of Israel, and still publicly criticize its policies,” and that more and more, young Americans’ “sympathy for the Palestinians” is on the rise. When these criticisms are based on the big lies often heard that Israel is oppressing, is an apartheid state […]

I attended the Barnard commencement on May 18. The first graduate who spoke was Shezza Abboushi Dallal, who led the school’s chapter of Justice in Palestine. She listed the battles the Barnard class has fought: sexual harassment, violence against black and brown bodies, and occupied Palestine. Putting Israel alongside sexual predators and violent racists was […]