Campus and student/youth Organizing
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 United States
IJAN is building a student/youth network that will begin in the United States and hopefully grow in other regions. The student/youth network seeks to develop the leadership and participation of younger anti-Zionists and questioning Jewish youth in our work and the broader Palestine solidarity and anti-racist movements.
Through campus-based organizing, we hope to engage both anti-Zionist Jewish students and faculty in supporting campus-based boycott, divestment and sanction campaigns, provide strategic defense for academic freedom and against the targeting of those who criticize Israel, organize anti-Zionist Jewish study groups and broader anti-Zionist educational events, and participate in broader Palestine solidarity work happening on campus.
This fall we will work with anti-Zionist Jewish students and faculty to being organizing on a few campuses. The work will focus on building student participation in the upcoming North American anti-Zionist Jewish Convening that IJAN is organizing as part of the summer 2010 US Social Forum.
Overtime, this network hopes to develop curriculum for student and faculty courses on anti-Zionist history and organizing, and participate in the organizing of campus forums and conferences on the connections between struggles against Zionism and other anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles. In the next month we will be sending out more information on the fall organizing. For more information or to participate in the building of the campus organizing and/or a student network on your campus, contact us at .