Ivy League school under fire for hosting 'antisemitic' writers festival

Noa Tishby reads from her book,"Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth," during a launch event on April 6, 2021, in Los Angeles.

CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL STUDENT ORGS PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT ZIONIST, PRO-ISRAEL SPEAKERS"UPenn's commitment to academic freedom must also come with a responsibility to counteract hate speech," Tishby added."The UPenn's administration statement is insufficient in addressing the deeply rooted antisemitic sentiments of some of the festival's speakers.

"While the Festival will feature more than 100 speakers, many have raised deep concerns about several speakers who have a documented and troubling history of engaging in antisemitism by speaking and acting in ways that denigrate Jewish people. We unequivocally — and emphatically — condemn antisemitism as antithetical to our institutional values," the school leaders wrote.

A truck in Philadelphia is urging the president of Penn to cancel the Palestine Writes literature festival." and slammed the letter authored by Magill and other school leaders for not mustering"the courage to defend an indigenous people's moral and necessary struggle against Israeli colonial fascism."

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