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July 2016, Alternative
Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org (Israel)
Written by Alternative Information
Center (AIC)
The problematic equation of anti-Zionism with
anti-Semitism hasn’t stifled student movements for Palestinian human rights at
U.S. universities.
Tallie Ben Daniel is the Academic Advisory
Council Coordinator for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
She completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at UC Davis in June of 2014 and is
currently working on a book manuscript titled "Gay Capital: San Francisco,
Tel Aviv and the Politics of Settler Colonialism." Ben Daniel talked
to Molly Dubrovsky, the editor of alternativenews.org, about student movements
on U.S. campuses campaigning for justice in Palestine.
MD: What sort of obstacles are activists
against Israeli occupation facing on university campuses in the U.S. today?
TBD: Anti-occupation activists on university
campuses – students and faculty – are facing quite a few obstacles,
but notably, those haven't hampered the struggle for Palestinian human rights
– the movement grows by the day. The largest obstacle is
