In this reported op-ed, Jewish students on college campuses nationwide speak about holding solidarity Shabbos to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Growing up in Israel , 23-year-old Aharon Dardik always loved Shabbat. It was a time of community, reflection, and prayer. So it was natural for him as an organizer, he says, to bring this Jewish tradition to the encampment for Palestinian liberation at his school, Columbia University in New York. “ Judaism has a history that goes back probably around 3,000 years, and Zionism has history that goes back around 200,” he tells Teen Vogue.
“To be Jewish in a time of genocide means that you have a duty and a responsibility to speak up,” says Bella Jacobs, a 22-year-old senior at Pitzer — and one of the organizers behind the recent, successful effort that made her college what appears to be the first in the US to cut its ties with an Israeli university due to the attacks on Gaza.
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