Palestinian students say their plight goes unheard on pro-Israel campus
…Last week’s Palestinian Solidarity Week on the campus, which was organized by several student groups, including the Muslim Students’ Association, brought the controversial topic to the forefront of the university’s attention through various programs and events.
But while organizers hoped Palestinian Solidarity Week would give students a glimpse of the Palestinian side of the struggle, they were met with resistance, both in the form of torn-down fliers before the week started and offensive posters characterizing Palestinians as violent that were anonymously hung after an event last Tuesday.
Palestinian students and their supporters point to the posters, which had been investigated as a hate crime, as an example of the one-sided dialogue the Israeli-Palestinian issue receives on this campus. Because of the university’s large Jewish population and the United States’ political sympathies toward Israel, it is a challenge for Palestinian students to have a presence, let alone a voice, on the campus, they said…
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