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[https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1823036/israel-embassy-colombia-swastika-graffiti Express UK]
[https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1823036/israel-embassy-colombia-swastika-graffiti Express UK]
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Israel-Palestine violence causes pain, frustration at UW-Madison.
By Abigail Leavins,
Oct 14, 2023
University of Wisconsin campus police stand between two groups on the Library Mall on Oct. 10 as pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian students exchange heated words.
Jordana Resnikoff said that being Jewish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was isolating enough before last week.
“No matter where you are, there’s always going to be somebody who doesn’t like me because I’m Jewish,” Resnikoff said.
She felt even more targeted, she said, by some of the responses on campus after the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel near the Gaza strip on Oct. 7, killing and wounding hundreds of Jewish civilians and taking numerous hostages. The Israeli military responded with airstrikes that in turn killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, which further escalated tensions between student groups in Madison.
Rabbi Mendel Matusof from the UW Chabad, a Jewish service organization on campus, said some students have been organizing in favor of Palestine, focusing on the political conflict. They organized a sit-in Oct. 10 to promote Palestinian ideals.
Resnikoff said that seeing people walk down State Street and celebrate after the Hamas attacks for political reasons was “gut-wrenching.” She said she doesn’t understand why innocent deaths would be celebrated.
“Why is it OK to celebrate this? Is it just because we’re Jewish?”
Students for Justice in Palestine, which organized the sit-in, has not yet responded to the Cap Times’ request for a statement or interview.
[https://captimes.com/news/community/israel-palestine-violence-causes-pain-frustration-at-uw-madison/article_cf48da6e-69d6-11ee-b84a-4350c500fa5d.html Captimes]
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