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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

Tufts University Hillel

Jews attend a rally in support of detained anti-Israel Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. Several Jews later left the rally after speakers began denouncing Israel. (Courtesy of Ron Newman via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 1:43 am
Jews at Tufts oppose ICE seizure of anti-Israel grad student, but are wary of protests
While condemning the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk amid free speech concerns surrounding Trump crackdown, Jewish advocates feel isolated by the tenor of demonstrations on her behalf
By Andrew Lapin
A view of Tufts University's Medford, Massachusetts campus. (Courtesy of Tufts University)
March 18, 2022, 8:21 pm
At Boston’s Tufts, campaign urges students not to join liberal pro-Israel groups
Pro-Palestinian chapter argues organizations like J Street ‘condemn occupation while normalizing colonization’; university calls campaign ‘divisive and harmful’
By Penny Schwartz
West Hall at Tufts University (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 13, 2019, 11:16 pm
Signs hung on Tufts’ Jewish center call to destroy ‘Israeli Apartheid Forces’
Posters as Boston-area university illustrated with cartoons depicting militarized pigs, some of them holding guns
By Agencies
At J Street's 2017 national conference, a group including Matan Arad-Neeman marched to the Israeli Embassy to drop off letters from hundreds of students calling for Israel to cancel the demolitions of Susya and Khan al-Ahmar. (Courtesy)
January 10, 2019, 5:36 am
Left-wing US student groups increase pressure on Birthright for ‘balanced’ trip
While more mainstream J Street U hasn’t yet called for a boycott, other anti-occupation campus organizations launch provocative steps to disrupt free 10-day youth trip to Israel
By Cathryn J. Prince
MEDFORD, MA - AUGUST 31: The Tufts University campus in Medford, MA is pictured on Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
September 1, 2018, 9:45 am
US students say ‘Colonizing Palestine’ university class demonizes Israel
The Hillel chapter at Tufts says that while it supports academic freedom, the course description is ‘prejudicial and unnecessarily provocative’
By Penny Schwartz
West Hall at Tufts University (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
September 8, 2017, 8:57 pm
Tufts University activists call Israel a ‘white supremacist state’
Boston-area school says student guide is not authorized, removes it from official Facebook pages
By Yvette Alt
West Hall at Tufts University. (Wikimedia Commons)
April 11, 2017, 11:28 am
Tufts student senate passes Israel divestment resolution
Vote held day before Passover, in what some say was attempt to prevent Jewish students’ involvement
By JTA
Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, an ethnomusicologist and a research professor of music. (screen capture: YouTube/Stanford)
June 8, 2014, 8:02 pm
Uganda interfaith tunes win prize
Songs about coffee and religious unity score medal at 13th annual Independent Music Awards
By JTA
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