A diversity of progressive views on Open Hillel
The Open Hillel campaign has continued to garner headlines as it continues to raise questions of whether political exclusion. Here’s a summary of our contributors’ commentary to date:
- Rabbi Aryeh Cohen asks why Hillel’s guidelines don’t also prohibit partnering with groups who abuse their employees or uses religion to oppress others.
- Aryeh Bernstein wants you to read what David Harris-Gershon says about how he still got booted from UC-Santa Barbara even though he doesn’t advocate BDS.
- Guest poster Alexander Germanacos wants you to become a facilitator of more open Israel conversations through the Bay Area Facilitation Fellowship.
- Daniel Roth points out how Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett, Prof. Alan Dershowitz and the Jewish Federations of North America’s CEO could all excluded based on the guidelines.
- Chanel Dubofsky shared the Open Hillel campaign’s response to Hillel Interational CEO Eric Fingerhut and Swarthmore Hillel declared itself an Open Hillel.
Stay tuned for more discussion.