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Live Updates: Students Occupy Parrish Lawn in Support of Palestine

This is a live story, check back for updates. Older posts may not reflect current information. Read the main article here.Updated as of 4:51 p.m. 5/5/2024. ⟡Live 4:50 p.m. 5/5/2024 I’ve received reports that Worthstock’s second act was canceled due to the

April 29, 2024

Highlights·Interviews·News

The Phoenix in Conversation with Author and Activist Naomi Klein

After writer and activist Naomi Klein gave the last lecture in Swarthmore’s “South Africa to Gaza: World History and the Politics of Accountability” series, she spoke to The Phoenix about the Israel-Gaza violence, the media, academia, climate, economics, and politics. Below is

April 25, 2024

News

Counterprogramming Allegations Display Campus Divisions over Palestine, Israel

Events held at Swarthmore, such as Former United States Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer’s talk, have been accused by students of being a counterprogramming effort by the college. Protestors at the talk cited the support of the event by the Provost’s Office

April 11, 2024

Highlights·News

SGO Calls for Administration to Reverse Course on Protest Response, Reaffirms 2019 BDS Resolution

On Feb. 1, the Student Government Organization (SGO) responded to the college’s investigations into disciplinary action for student protestors by passing a resolution and statement. In a school-wide email titled “Statement in Support of First Amendment Rights and Opposition to Unfair Punishments

February 8, 2024

Opinion

We Are Not Your Excuse: Jews Say Swarthmore Must Start Acting in the Interest of Peace

Editor’s note: Under normal circumstances, The Phoenix does not allow groups to publish as a collective and requires individual members to submit on groups’ behalf. After careful consideration, The Phoenix has decided to make an exception to this policy due to credible

November 16, 2023

Opinion

A Response to Swarthmore’s Middle East and North Africa Faculty Statement

In last week’s Phoenix, eight Swarthmore faculty (henceforth “the authors”) criticized President Smith’s letter to the community of Oct. 10th entitled “Violence in the Middle East.” At first, I thought they objected to the fact that President Smith mentioned “the horrific attacks

November 2, 2023

Opinion

Our Protests Should Be More Thoughtful

There are few moments when it is not worth listening to someone. This should be an obvious truism, yet it feels like an increasingly contentious position. When a group of my fellow students interrupted Haverford College Professor of Political Science Barak Mendelsohn

October 26, 2023

Highlights·News

Canary Mission Website Adds Profiles of Swarthmore Community Members for Pro-Palestine Activism

Co-reporting by Bastiaan Phair Earlier this month, some members of the Swarthmore community discovered they had been added to the anonymous website Canary Mission for their activism on the Israeli occupation of Palestine — including the push for the Student Government Organization

February 27, 2020

Opinion

On Shame, Empathy, and Israel-Palestine

I proudly supported the two-state solution from the moment I realized my Jewish day school had indoctrinated me on the discussion of Israel and Palestine. I was repeatedly told that Israel was my home for all nine years of my Jewish education.

February 21, 2019

Opinion

On the Palestinian Question

The question with which Israel consistently grapples is: what should we do with the land between the river and the sea? I claim the state’s actions with regards to this question are perpetuating the principles of apartheid. Karl Marx’s piece “On the

December 6, 2018

israel-palestine

Live Updates: Students Occupy Parrish Lawn in Support of Palestine

The Phoenix in Conversation with Author and Activist Naomi Klein

Counterprogramming Allegations Display Campus Divisions over Palestine, Israel

SGO Calls for Administration to Reverse Course on Protest Response, Reaffirms 2019 BDS Resolution

We Are Not Your Excuse: Jews Say Swarthmore Must Start Acting in the Interest of Peace

A Response to Swarthmore’s Middle East and North Africa Faculty Statement

Our Protests Should Be More Thoughtful

Canary Mission Website Adds Profiles of Swarthmore Community Members for Pro-Palestine Activism

On Shame, Empathy, and Israel-Palestine

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