This article is contributed to The Maroon by UChicago Jews for a Free Palestine. To read and sign onto our position statement, use this link: tinyurl.com/UCHIJEWS4PALESTINE. We are witnessing the rise of a new McCarthyism. Congress and pro-Israel institutions are targeting the movement for Palestinian liberation by pushing a false, dangerous conflation between antisemitism and pro-Palestine.
Jewish institutions reject those questioning the role of Zionism in Jewish life, but the organization Judaism On Our Own Terms is creating a space where young Jews do not have to choose between their Judaism and their sense of justice.