The Iran Deal, One Year On
And what the next president can do.
June 14, 2016
Not-so-open Hillel.
Founded by Jewish students at Harvard in 2012, Open Hillel seeks to persuade campus Hillel houses and the organization that coordinates them to change their rules regarding Israel-related programming. These forbid cooperation with groups and speakers advocating actual boycott of the Jewish state or calling for its destruction, but allow events sponsored by left-wing groups like Breaking the Silence, which excoriates the IDF. Jared Samilow explains that Open Hillel is not the tolerant defender of free speech it claims to be:
And what the next president can do.
Putting Israel back in the headlines.
S. Y. Agnon in English.
Not-so-open Hillel.
The simplest explanation.
Founded by Jewish students at Harvard in 2012, Open Hillel seeks to persuade campus Hillel houses and the organization that coordinates them to change their rules regarding Israel-related programming. These forbid cooperation with groups and speakers advocating actual boycott of the Jewish state or calling for its destruction, but allow events sponsored by left-wing groups like Breaking the Silence, which excoriates the IDF. Jared Samilow explains that Open Hillel is not the tolerant defender of free speech it claims to be:
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