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Columbia protests should be for the hostages

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I study at Columbia University and live near the campus. The reality here is alarming. It's even scarier for me as someone who has paid the price of terror personally.

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Jerusalem Post

Columbia protests should be for the hostages

I study at Columbia University and live near the campus. The reality here is alarming. It's even scarier for me as someone who has paid the price of terror personally.

10 days ago·Jerusalem, Israel

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Reason

John McWhorter on the Columbia Protests

An excerpt from his column in yesterday's N.Y. Times: Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is "4'33"," which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for exactly that amount of time. I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon because the surrounding noise would ha…

10 days ago·United States

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The Forward

Protesters at Columbia are fighting for our deepest values as Jews

Today, on Columbia University’s campus and on campuses across the country, students have erupted in protest against the ongoing mass death we are witnessing in Gaza, where the Israeli military has killed more than an estimated 34,000 Palestinians since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. It is appropriate that many of the student protesters are Jewish: Jews have played a powerful role in American protest movements for decades. In Egypt, as we recall every Pa…

10 days ago

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