Since I have been writing about higher education in these pages, it’s incumbent that I address the current campus protests against the agony in Gaza.
Bless me Father for I have sinned. I am a United States citizen. I have paid my federal taxes. Our United States government offers money and weapons to Israel.
If others aren’t going to protest America’s support of Israel through its billions in cash and tens of thousands of bombs that have reduced wide swaths of Gaza to rubble, campus protests have a role to play — and at the very least have succeeded in making … (read more)
I have been pondering the relationship between policing and teaching. Initially, one might not see the two as related, but they really are quite intertwined.
Middlebury College students on Monday struck a deal with administrators and dismantled the pro-Palestinian encampment formed in the center of campus.
Over 100 students at Middlebury College have formed an encampment on campus in solidarity with the people of Gaza, joining a nationwide student movement protesting Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas.
It has now been more than six months since the Hamas attack of October 7, and about six months since Israel began raining bombs onto the people of Gaza.
“If the American public saw pictures and videos of a one year old baby with ten pieces of shrapnel in their one year old forehead and face or if they saw a twelve year old with no limbs and burnt like an ignored hot dog on the grill, they would open their … (read more)
Senator Bernie Sanders, referring to the war in Gaza, has said, “It is not just an Israeli war. It is an American war. These are our bombs and military equipment that are being used.”
Joanna Colwell and Lindsey Berk have for years faithfully rallied around humanitarian and environmental causes at the local level.
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating a complaint of alleged antisemitism at Middlebury College.
How do you confront atrocities committed half-way around the world from the comfort of your Vermont bubble? This is a question that Bristol residents Rebecca Ryskalczyk and Nick Dooley couldn’t shake in the face of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, now in its … (read more)
Vermont’s U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, with a handful of other Democratic senators, are right to urge President Joe Biden to use the Foreign Assistance Act to stop providing offensive weapons to Israel in its war with Hamas.
Mr. Gleason’s letter in the March 7th Addison Independent regarding U.S. support of the elimination of the Palestinian people from their traditional homeland was a poignant reminder of our complicity in the majority of death and suffering going on in the … (read more)
I want to respond to Angelo’s Feb. 15 editorial regarding our senators’ and representative’s stand on funding more aid to Israel.
