The Jewish Voices Speaking Up In Opposition to the Gaza Genocide

While it's very important for progressives to monitor their own antisemitism when speaking for Palestinian rights, it's also very true that a lot of the discussion about antisemitism that shows up in the mainstream press is calculated to erase the fact that a lot of American Jews have been standing up in opposition to Israel's wholesale massacre of the Gaza Palestinians — and in some cases, Zionism as a whole.

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In a statement responding to those recent antisemitic incidents, Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, the student group coalition behind the campus encampments, condemned any form of hate or bigotry and “stand[s] vigilant against non-students attempting to disrupt the solidarity being forged among students — Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, Black, and pro-Palestinian classmates and colleagues who represent the full diversity of our country.”

Shabbat for Ceasefire organizers like Sabrina Ellis, a junior at the University of Los Angeles, say they feel like they’ve found that solidarity with their fellow anti-Zionist Jewish peers. She and the other Jewish young people that spoke to Teen Vogue for this story say that, even in instances when there was no explicit hostility, anti-Zionist students feel alienated in mainstream Jewish spaces, which they say are mostly Zionist. “You can't agree to disagree on genocide,” Ellis says. 33-ee62b9db7d06.webp)___