The student protest in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, where I work as a journalism professor was a most fitting setting for a peaceful, focused, and deeply moving Passover seder. (The student leader said)“As we move through this seder...we will be exploring what it means to celebrate Passover during an ongoing genocide, what it means to tell stories of Jewish displacement and persecution as the Palestinian people have their land colonized in the name of ‘Jewish safety.”...media and politicians, who never bothered to talk to these students, relentlessly (depict) them as pro-Hamas hoodlums spewing Jew-hatred and (describe) their encampment as a violent threat, (but) that is nowhere close to what I witnessed over the months of campus protests. The encampment was an oasis of cooperation...with food and first-aid stations, a library, and an art corner.
At hyperallergic.com
