Author Archives: Arno Rosenfeld
Zionists are not your enemy
How divestment activists at UBC can win over Jewish students and fight oppression more effectively
One needs to repeat that what in Zionism served the no doubt fully justified ends of Jewish tradition, saving the Jews as a people from homelessness and anti-Semitism, and restoring them to nationhood, also collaborated with those aspects of the dominant Western culture (in which Zionism exclusively and institutionally lived) making it possible for Europeans […]
Why Gupta’s Casual Racism Should Worry You
Filed under Campus, Capitalism & Class, Decolonization, Global Politics, Race and Racism · January 30th, 2015
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Gupta has said the right things about UBC’s role in society, but his actions from the Band Aid video to his allocation of tens of millions in research funding at a time when the Board of Governors is hiking students fees and complaining about a lack of funding for the university, say far more about his plans.
