If we truly want to enact change and promote social justice, we must learn to listen to one another with respect and understanding.
I call on Chancellor Martin and the Board of Trustees to show exemplary leadership and take a moral and ethical stand against genocide. There are not two sides to genocide, and silence is complicity.
You have an awesome opportunity to learn from students who want to learn from you.
If we want to see this campus be a place of productive, compassionate dialogue on this issue, all students, and especially those who belong to affected communities cannot be made to feel afraid to share their feelings and their story. By cheering on antisemitic harassment, Professor Gustafson is sabotaging those efforts.
It should be clear that any attack on any human is injustice; it is our moral obligation to free ourselves from these narrow walls, to recognize the humanity in one another and raise our voices against all forms of violence.
We, people who wish to see Israel exist as a healthy democracy, have to confront the reality that Israel has undergone an incredibly alarming rightward shift in recent years, and that Palestinians have paid the price for it.
In light of the recent uptick in opinion submissions, the Forum editorial staff has decided to put together an outline of our editing process and journalistic goals.
We all should be wary of efforts to use legitimate grief and fear over the war to advance an old agenda that aims at the freedom that makes academic life so valuable.
There is no reason the U.S. should be aiding Israel and abetting war crimes. Yet the massacre of innocents goes on.
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