The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/?s=israel)
Hundreds of Cornell community members rallied on the Arts Quad to combat rising antisemitism and support Israel while Pro-Palestinian students protested in favor of divestment.
While I wholeheartedly condemn the (denied) proposal to CFI’s executive board of rape as a spectacle and the organization in and of itself, I further understand that there needs to be more support for the Israeli victims and survivors of rape.
Hatikvah, which translates to “the hope” is the national anthem of the state of Israel. Officially adopted as the national anthem in 2004, Hatikvah was created over a century prior to its installation. It has been said that “few words are as well-known to Jews around the world as the lyrics of Hatikvah.”
History
Hatikvah was first written as a nine-stanza poem by Naphtali Herz Imber. Imber was born in 1856 in the town of Zloczow (then in the Galician region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of Ukraine). In 1882, Imber came to Ottoman-ruled Palestine as part of the First Aliyah.
CFI said that the sexual violence demonstration was canceled before criticism from the Coalition for Mutual Liberation was publicized.
Re “Palestinians and Israelis Both Deserve to Thrive” (opinion, Feb. 17)
Prof. Joseph Margulies, government and law, was part of Cornell’s Collective for Justice in Palestine, a group dedicated to the freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people (Israeli and Palestinian) from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. In his Guest Room submission, “Palestinians and Israelis Both Deserve to Thrive,” Margulies hits on many liberal Zionist talking points without explaining the reality of the current situation for both of our groups. In his submission, Margulies reveals himself as a typical liberal, with one notable exception: his stance on Palestine. I completely agree with Margulies’s assertion that both Israelis and Palestinians deserve to thrive, but we must examine why this is currently not the case.
I have been a supporter and a critic of Israel nearly as long as I could spell its name. For nearly the whole of its existence, it has represented complexity to me. It is promise and hope, but also cruelty and idiocy. It is besieged but also discriminatory. It has a right to exist and to defend itself; it has an obligation to change and to reform itself. I defend it; I condemn it.
The Student Assembly rejected Resolution 51, which urged Cornell to divest from companies “committing morally reprehensible actions” in Gaza, with a 16-4 vote.
In an exclusive interview, Ryan Lombardi and Joel Malina discuss the campus climate following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, including the antisemitic threats made by a Cornell student, Prof. Rickford’s remark and the University’s controversial statements on these matters.
When I see men wearing kippahs, women with hijabs or people wearing the Star of David I come face to face with the dark direction the world has taken. Everything feels much more real when you look into the eyes of a fellow human being.
Cornell students in support of Palestine accused the University of silence following threats toward Palestinian students and allies, as well as criticizing their response to the Israel-Hamas war and ties to Israel.