just wanted to say I find your art absolutely breathtaking and I’m in awe of all the effort, dedication, skill, and love you put into this project—which is genuinely such a wild undertaking that the fact you took it on shows me how determined and focused you are. you have a vision, and I’m so glad you are choosing to share it with us! your art on my dashboard always makes my day brighter. thank you <3
this is the kindest ask ever, thank you so much, seriously! 🥺 it’s been nearly a whole year since i started so i’ve been getting kind of sappy about the journey and how much work i’ve put into this. it’s really nice to have someone acknowledge the scope of the project creatively 🫶🏻
Sharply criticizing Pitzer’s faculty, President Melvin Oliver said it is plain wrong, discriminatory and inconsistent to boycott Israel so long as Pitzer, along with many other American colleges, “promotes exchanges and study abroad in countries with significant human rights abuses.” He added that “China, for example, has killed, tortured and imprisoned up to 1 million people in Tibet and utterly obliterated the Tibetan nation. China currently has 1 million Muslims imprisoned in ‘re-education’ camps. Why would we not suspend our program with China? Or take our longest-standing program in Nepal…they have had a bloody civil war that killed 10,000 people. Why Israel?”
As Oliver implied, Israel is singled out among all nations for student and faculty protests because it is primarily a Jewish state. And one definition of anti-Semitism is singling out Jews or Israel to be punished for supposed but unproven actions that have been documented on a much larger or much more brutal scale in many other countries.
No college faculty, for example, has even considered voting to boycott Saudi Arabia for its state-sanctioned assassination and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But Israel is excoriated for defensive acts.
Oliver’s statement is the most articulate argument yet made by an academic against the decade-long BDS campaign. Its logic is unassailable. The real question is why no distinguished, high-ranking officials said anything similar before.
It’s unbelievable how much has changed in 5 years! 2012 vs 2017, high school senior photo vs my grad school ID photo. MtF you ask? Oh no, I’m BtV! Boy-to-vampire.
