Seraj Assi is a Palestinian writer living in Washington D.C.
Students across the United States are rising up against Israel’s genocide in Gaza , bringing to memory the student movements of the 1960s. From Columbia to Brown, from Yale to Harvard, students are staging sit-ins, hunger strikes, class walkouts, and interfaith prayers, demanding an end to U.S. support for Israel and the complicity of their academic institutions in the ongoing genocide. While some U.S.
The tragic irony is that the current atmosphere of anti-Palestinian McCarthyism on U.S. campuses—led by an unlikely coalition of far-right Republicans, mainstream media, and liberal academic institutions—was foreseen by none other than Said himself. In his seminal essay, “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims” , Said warned: The special, one might even call it the privileged, place in this discussion of the United States is impressive, for all sorts of reasons.
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