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Friends,

My name is Meirav. I’m a student at Tufts University and a J Street U
student leader.

Last week, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee as they held
a hearing on antisemitism in America. As the only Jewish college student
to participate, I was disheartened by the spin Republican senators pushed
at me despite having not stepped foot on campuses themselves.

We know that the MAGA movement will ignore the antisemitism in their own
ranks – the Nazi salutes, the conspiracy theories and the history of
hate-fueled mass shootings – to push a warped narrative that the real
threat to the Jewish people is higher education.

Here’s what I told senators: The majority of my classmates aren’t
Hamas-aligned radicals. They’re students whose perspectives may differ
from ours, but who must be welcome as long as they voice them
respectfully. I told them that we must protect higher education. That
institutions must safeguard dialogue.

[ [link removed] ]If you agree, can I ask you to sign this petition?

[ [link removed] ]Denigrating Higher Education Won’t Stop Campus Antisemitism

✍️ [ [link removed] ]Add your name if you agree ✍️

As the daughter of two rabbis, with both Israeli and Palestinian friends,
I learned the hard way what it feels like to be caught up in fierce,
partisan politics playing out on campus – to be ignored or even exploited
by the very institutions that pledge to keep us safe.

My friends and I have experienced the increase in antisemitic incidents
that you’ve read about. Since October 7, we’ve seen some rhetoric at
anti-war protests cross the line into ugly stereotyping, hateful vitriol
on social media and violent threats against Jewish students. It’s true
that too many protesters have embraced antisemitic tropes or conflated the
government of Israel with Jewish people around the world.

But we cannot give up on the colleges and universities we call home. We
have no common cause with those who want to discredit or defund higher
education. Protecting education, civil rights and open dialogue is vital
to my future and to the ability of Jewish students to succeed and thrive.

The past few days have seen the Trump Administration escalate their
attacks on campuses by zeroing in on Columbia University – justifying
threats to student visas and cutting hundreds of millions of dollars of
federal funding by claiming antisemitism while in reality doing nothing to
protect Jewish students.

It’s chilling. And it’s just the beginning.

The MAGA movement seems determined to sacrifice resources that keep Jewish
students safe at the altar of their culture war, and we – Jewish Americans
– cannot allow it.

By attacking higher education, Trump and his allies are threatening to
abandon the most effective tools the government has to fight antisemitism
in all its forms – and I won’t stand idly by while they do it.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re with me, please click here to sign the petition. We need to
show that our perspective is broadly shared – so every signature makes a
difference, and I’m counting on you to add yours.

Thank you, sincerely, for your support.

Meirav Solomon


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