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Israel Summit Targets Non-Jews on Campus
Israel Summit Targets Non-Jews on Campus
The goal of the virtual summit is to broaden Israel’s appeal to those who don’t have a vested interest in the country. By Jan Jaben-Eilon January 27, 2021, 1:19 pm Edit 68 shares
It’s one thing to advocate on Israel’s behalf to Jewish university students. It’s quite another to share Israel’s story with the non-Jewish students.
That larger audience is the target of next month’s virtual Israel Summit, an international conference organized by university students around the world. Harvard sophomore Aidan Golub, the executive director of The Israel Summit, said his goal is to “change the conversation about Israel on campus. We have Jewish organizations that run Israel programming targeted to Jews, but for the other 97 percent of the students who don’t have the exposure, Israel is merely synonymous with the desert, apartheid weeks and violence.