Los Angeles Review of Books
Jul 12, 2024
Saree Makdisi writes on the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
They are facing the threat of assault and arrest by overzealous riot police, suspension by universities such as Columbia, Princeton, and UCLA, character assassination and doxing by well-funded lobbying organizations and individuals, and blacklisting on murky websites connected to a manipulative foreign power.
They are not alone, however: these Jewish students are working together with countless others—Asian, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, white, and Arab—to protest the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. Every chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) that I know of has vocal and active Jewish members, and there are many overlaps between SJP and campus chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).