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I graduated my Master of Social Work at CWRU right around when JRL got started. It had never occurred to me in my two years at CWRU to go to Hillel or Chabad services because I knew my values would not align with theirs. I wouldn't be able to be myself or be open with my thoughts and values. There was not a space for Jewish students like me. If JRL existed when I was a student, I would've been able to participate in my faith and culture on campus. It's outrageous and embarrassing that a student government would stand against the recognition of a Jewish student group in 2025. I stand with JRL and urge CWRU to let students exercise their freedom of religion, including when their religious practice means working towards liberation and tikkun olam.
The CWRU administration has consistently positioned itself as an authority on Jewish issues while actively suppressing the Jewish voices that they disagree with. It's frightening to see USG position themselves similarly, allowing for Zionist Jewish groups like Chabad and Hillel to operate under USG, but labeling JRL—a group whose political and social justice motives are implied in their name—as "too cultural" for USG. I stand with my Jewish peers who are seeking to create a safe space for the Jewish community and who feel like the existing Jewish organizations on campus have failed to do so. CWRU needs JRL.
I graduated my Master of Social Work at CWRU. I stand with JRL. It's embarrassing that student government would disclude Jewish student group.
In the end, CWRU and USG are harming their own reputation when they excluding groups fighting for the liberation of all people.
The U of U is not tacitly, but actively showing support for an ongoing genocide. I am ashamed of my Alma mater (two degrees) and my place of employment. This decision by the U comes on the back of new organizational policies seeking to limit the freedom of speech in political matters by university of Utah employees, likely in reaction to unionization efforts. What hypocritical horseshit. Shame on the U of U.
Apparently it’s an “academic collaboration” which doesn’t “represent a political stance” which is absolutely ridiculous because we’re going to have illegal settlers prancing around campus. I am horrified to be a student of a school that proudly legitimizes settler colonialism, illegal under U.S, Utah, and international law. I’m at a total loss right now
as someone who is jewish and has family from israel. It’s so sad that people are using the teachings of god against one another. We were taught to live our neighbors as much as we love our family and friends. And to say that what they’re doing doesn’t resemble the holocaust, it’s similar they’re ethically trying to cleanse palestine
Normalizing connections with illegal Israeli settlements undermines any future where Palestinians get to return to their land and makes Americans, Jewish people, and Palestinians less safe. The only safe future for all parties is one where Palestinians aren’t occupied.