July 01, 2021 (vol. , iss. 1) • Page Image 15
….” Shemer said Hillel’s Undergraduate Governing Board urged a halting of hate- ful messages coming from both sides of the issue and called on the leadership of other student organizations to do the same…
…. “Hillel’s staff and student leadership invited student leaders from CSG and LSA to attend an online forum in which Jewish students talked about the impact of CSG’s and LSA’s one-sided statements…
… to encourage them to address issues of antisemitism. “LSA Student Government did pass a resolution con- demning the rise in antisem- itism and committed their leadership to working with Hillel…
… [Pai’s] statement foolish and dangerous.” ALUMNI REACTION Alumna Alexa Smith (Penny Stamps School of Design ’18) said she wants her university to do better when it comes to defining what…
… condemning Israel,” said Shemer. “However, CSG has not retracted their statement, have not condemned hateful mes- saging directed toward indi- viduals or Hillel or the Jewish community, and have not…
… condemned the vandalism at the Hillel building. While we were deeply disappointed that there was little recognition how painful their messaging was for Jewish and pro-Israel students, we will continue…
… on programming addressing antisemitism in the future.” After being approached by Hillel for dialogue, CSG mem- ber Ashvin Pai in a May 18 publicly released document to the CSG said he disagreed…
… requests from pro-Israel students to learn more about the com- plexities of the wider Arab/ Israeli conflict by having conversations with other stu- dents or reading books from a variety of viewpoints…
… on the history of the topic. “Whether intentional or not, these statements act as an active erasure of Palestinian history by insinuating that the lived experiences of Palestinians and of…
… marginal- ized communities who are in solidarity with Palestine are not as valuable as Western institutionalized knowledge. The history of Palestine is not found in a book or learned in a course.” The…