The chaos sweeping across US campuses has captured the attention of Americans and those worldwide no less.
We watch as events unfold, we hear what is chanted on repeat, and see the unironic conviction of student protesters assured of their righteousness even as identifiably Jewish kids are physically blocked and bullied as they navigate a campus turned into a threatening neighborhood.
In Israel where half of the world's 15 million Jews live, we face daily the potential for life threatening terrorism and war.
The vast majority of Diaspora Jews live in the US and have thrived in its bastion of freedom, we gave the best of our brilliance and innovation and together we have grown.
“Palestine” as the story goes, is both a place and a genocide unlike any other before or since. Primarily because it consists of each individual’s varied and most aspirational fantasies and thus cannot be contradicted enmeshed as is it, in storytelling, ignorance, and an emptiness all in one.
We, America and the West, are at a turning point. The pillars of civilization are crumbling from within. Who will take the reins? Those who champion freedom and the vigilance to maintain it or those who would thrust us into totalitarian and absolute rule for the foreseeable future to come?
Ilana Rachel Daniel speaks with Eyal Yakoby, a student at UPENN, one of the hotbeds of turmoil, to learn more.
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The Common Denominator: #14 Chaos on Campus with Eyal Yakoby