Voices from Campus: Hunter College
We stepped into the hallway and immediately noticed keffiyehs everywhere, anti-Israel signs and students clustered by the windows looking down at the swelling protest . . .
We stepped into the hallway and immediately noticed keffiyehs everywhere, anti-Israel signs and students clustered by the windows looking down at the swelling protest . . .
Amidst all this, the entire Jewish community on campus—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and secular—demonstrated inspiring achdut. The Jewish connection on campus has never been stronger.
When I return to campus, the antisemitism is still there, but I have gained a newfound resilience, the knowledge that wherever I go, my people stand by my side.
Every single day in my math class, I hear the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” I’m ashamed to be in the same institution as these people.