From Nadine’s Desk

The colonial state has not only fragmented the land, it has also shattered the lives of Palestinians. Israel is treating this program as a calculated valve release of its oppression and deeply rooted racism, racial profiling, and violence toward Palestinians. That should not be accepted. The right to movement, to enter, and to be treated as a human should apply to every Palestinian native of this land, everywhere.

“Dialogue” is a fantasy which benefits the oppressor. If you are going on Israel Trek, you might like to sit around a dining hall table and talk it out, hear the other side, feel better, and go on your trip, but this is not a luxury my Palestinian family/friends can afford.

If even a highly respected establishment figure like Ken Roth can be targeted for speaking out against Israel’s abuse of Palestinian human rights, where does that leave student organizers like us?

A conversation with Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, professor of journalism and political science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and author of The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter, on the Palestinian Generation Gap.

At a time when criticism of Israel prompts accusations of anti-semitism many Palestinians find is difficult to present their case or even have their own identity accepted. Taghreed El-Khodary, formerly the New York Times’s Gaza correspondent and Nadine Bahour, a Palestinian-American currently at Harvard say what it is like to be a Palestinian abroad.

For the first time at Harvard, I feel heard as a Palestinian. When The Crimson Editorial Board published their unequivocal backing of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel, I felt that a milestone had been reached.

Joined with Harvard student Shraddha Joshi and Emma Gelman, a lecturer at New York University and an activist with the Drop The ADL coalition, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviews us on the BDS efforts at Harvard and student activism.