On September 14th, 2022, a banner was hung across from Cornell’s Center for Jewish Life with the message “Burn Prisons. Free Them All. From Attica to Palestine.” This attempt to conflate prison reform in the US with the detainment and imprisonment of terrorists by Israel is the latest ploy by...
Erasure of Faces and Facts: Anti-Zionism at Cornell University
This past fall, Ariella Aisha Azoulay, a guest lecturer from Brown University, was invited to Cornell University’s architecture department to speak to students. Azoulay gave a biased, anti-Zionist presentation titled “Palestine Is There, Where It Has Always Been.” In it, she showed photographs of the early pioneers of the State...
אנטי-גזענות לא יכולה להיות עילה לאנטישמיות
Photo: Axel Tschentscher / Wikimedia Commons ב- 7 בספטמבר פרסמה קבוצה של פרופסורים וסטודנטים לתארים מתקדמים מכתב גלוי לנשיאה מרתה א.פולק ולראש הקמפוס מייקל קוטליקוף, המפרט את הצעדים הנחוצים לדעתם ל”קורנל אנטי-גזענית”. ברשימת הצעות זו היתה הבקשה המוזרה לפיה האוניברסיטה תטפל ב”מעורבותה של קורנל טק בג’נטריפיקציה של שכונת קווינס, ובאמצעות...
Anti-Racism Can’t be a Pretext for Antisemitism
On September 7, a group of professors, graduate students and staff published an open letter to President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff, listing the measures they deem necessary for an “anti-racist Cornell.” Buried within this set of proposals was the curious request that the University address “Cornell Tech’s involvement in...
In the Midst of Coronavirus, Hatred of Israel Persists at Cornell
“Zionist Occupation is the Virus.” No, that hashtag wasn’t shared by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip or by an Iranian state mouthpiece. White supremacist and antisemite David Duke didn’t share it. Nor was it shared by Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who has...
When Will Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine Stop Endorsing A Terror Organization?
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel/Wikimedia Commons On Tuesday, Jan. 28, Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine shared a post on Facebook from the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists page. The post read, “This is how you respond to Trump and Netanyahu’s calls for ‘negotiation’ and ‘peace talks’ based on their plan for permanent apartheid”...
Historical Revisionism at Cornell University
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Cornell chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) hosted a film screening on Sept. 22 of Gaza Fights for Freedom, a documentary produced by Abby Martin. For student organizations claiming to fight for truth and social justice, it is interesting that SJP and...
Student Assembly Must Reject Anti-Israel Boycott
Last month I, Avraham, poured my heart out in an article for The Sun, entitled “Rejecting Boycott, Extending an Olive Branch,” describing my deep connection to the State of Israel and pleading with Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine to “exchange points of view in a respectful manner, rather than...
