The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/israel/)
Prof. Ross Brann, Near Eastern studies, explained the historical context of Islamophobic and antisemitic tropes and the need to fight against contemporary prejudice in a talk given to over 1,700 attendees.
The “KIDNAPPED” posters affixed to poles and utility boxes on the Ithaca Commons have been removed after they were vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti, including one that said “Israel is Hitler.”
Today, I’m reaching out as part of the Cornell community, which is of deep importance to me and my family. I attended Cornell, as did my parents and two of my children.
Around 200 students staged a die-in in Klarman Hall to mourn the lives of those killed in Gaza and demand the University acknowledge Palestinian suffering.
A suspect is in custody in connection to the antisemitic threats posted on the platform Greekrank this weekend. It is still unknown whether the suspect is affiliated with Cornell University.
At its Oct. 26 meeting, the Student Assembly passed a resolution asking the University to condemn the doxxing of students, which has been a fear of pro-Palestine advocates since the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas.
Various campus demonstrations expressing viewpoints on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict occurred this week, including anti-Israel graffiti, a rally in support of Palestine and a Jewish community gathering.
This article spoils Killers of the Flower Moon, though it should be noted that the nature of the film renders the spoilers somewhat benign.
TW: Genocide
I’ve spent the weekend caught between two entirely contradictory thoughts, each reflected in a piece of media from the week before. The first is the conclusion to Arielle Angel’s article on the Hamas attacks and Israel’s genocidal response, articulating in a moment of truly devastating hopelessness a vision of possibility to hold close. There has never been a period in U.S. history of greater solidarity with Palestine, nor of greater Jewish participation in that solidarity. The other is the concluding moments of Martin Scorsese’s new masterpiece Killers of the Flower Moon: Both bitterly satirical and somehow earnest, a vision not just of evil’s inevitability, but of the function of art as a commodity to fetishize it, and all spoken by a man who’s dedicated his life to the rejection of evil and embrace of art. Scorsese’s exclamation point of bleakness comes at the end of perhaps his deepest felt tragedy to date, an indictment absent of nearly any reprieve.
Killers of the Flower Moon adapts David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same name and follows a string of murders perpetrated against members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation by white capitalists and their manipulated lieutenants.
The Israel-Hamas war has been raging for two weeks. For many, including myself, time has stopped.
In reality, though, time never stops.
Dueling sentiments towards Prof. Russell Rickford currently divide campus following his Oct. 15 remarks, in which he stated he was “exhilarated” by Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks against Israel.