Published on April 26, 2024 at 9:09 p.m. / Modified on April 26, 2024 at 9:12 p.m.
We enter the campus of Columbia University, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York, almost like we would pass through the gantry of an airport. A security guard shouts for students to produce their university ID cards in advance. Kippah on the head, a young parliamentarian with a university employee. This rabbinical student is training in a theological seminary located right next door. He sometimes has classes at Columbia but doesn’t have the precious pass. He comes to bring food to other Jewish students who have been camping for a week against the war in Gaza.
This minority is voluntarily highlighted by the protesters to defend themselves from the flood of accusations of anti-Semitism. Criticism against this high place of American liberalism, where Hillary Clinton teaches and where Barack Obama obtained his diploma, comes from Republicans too happy to fight in the cultural battle which is tearing America apart but also from the White House, on the defensive after six months of carnage in Gaza carried out with American weapons.
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