Save ethnic studies — including Palestine!
Nerissa Hsieh/Staff
Every day the news gives us a sharper understanding of why our youth need to understand racism, the continuing cost of colonial conquest.
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UC Berkeley pilot program aims to address anti-Semitism on campus, receives grant
The Antisemitism Education Initiative, a pilot program at UC Berkeley, received a $25,000 grant from the national nonprofit Academic Engagement Network, or AEN, on Sept. 10.
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Retracted: This war can’t be civil
We tend to forget who actually initiates violence — generally, we “expect better” of the oppressed, never considering their oppressors.
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Retracted: Beyond what’s normal
Hope and imagination — aren’t these the first steps of any movement working toward a reality beyond what we deem “normal”?
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Goodbye Bernie, we miss you
Fresh off the BART
Bernie did something that no other politician had done before: he listened to my community. He listened and understood the problems that Muslim Americans face, the ones we had given up hope of ever solving, and he told the country that Americans must do better.
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From river to sea: Palestinian students in the UC system
It signals power and privilege to presume that individuals are “terrorists” without first asking what forces them to resort to protests. To individuals who seek to teach us oppressors’ morals, we respectfully say we do not take orders from colonizers.
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Studying history is a good idea
Kelvin Ervais’ simplified statement in the op-ed “ASUC fails students when it comes to free speech” that there is an “Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory” does not make it so. For three millennium up until 1948, Jews lived almost continuously in Judea and Samaria. In 1948, Jordan illegally occupied Judea
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ASUC fails students when it comes to free speech
The fact that a morally askew bill such as this was able to make it this far in the ASUC shows that UC Berkeley does not have an anti-Semitism problem like Zerman might claim, but rather a First Amendment one.
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Chancellor Carol Christ responds to Bears for Palestine cubicle display bill
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ released two letters Feb. 18 responding to an ASUC bill that would have condemned a cubicle display by Bears for Palestine in Eshleman Hall that included photos of controversial Palestinian activists — some of whom had allegedly been involved in acts of terrorism.
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Campus must address anti-Semitism, work through pain
Condemning violence against innocent civilians is not a normalization of the occupation nor an affirmation of the Zionist cause. To suggest otherwise is a perversion of the truth, and I am disappointed by the use of these manipulative tactics.
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