It's actually completely feasible to separate Jewish life from Hillel. Plenty of schools have independent Jewish student life orgs in addition to or, like at my alma mater, instead of Hillel. It's not antisemitic to ask other schools to follow suit. We SHOULD do so.

We need to reckon with the fact that while Zionism is not *inherently* part of Judaism in any way, organizations like Hillel International have worked hard to ensure that Jewish students believe that it is and see the linkage as inextricable, thus "justifying" this repression.

reminder that hillel has collaborated with cops and the idf, facilitates trips to the zionist entity, and engages in systemic harassment and targeting campaigns against palestinians, muslims, ppl of colour, antizionist jews and anyone who fights in solidarity against the genocide

While NYT fear-mongers about "Hms networks", it conceals REAL Zionist collaborations with state & moneyed interests! Read Maura's 🧵on Hillel (Israel Leadership Network, Hasbara Fellowships, Jewish Agency Israel Fellows), Birthright, Christian Zionist orgs, Heritage Fdn, etc:

Matthew Noah Smith Whether you like it or not, it’s an inescapable truth that US Jewish institutions have been warped into boosters of israel and zionism. Synagogues have JNF collection boxes and are used to host auctions for stolen Palestinian land, hillel sponsors birthright trips, etc.

I don’t think the ADL would be anywhere as successful as it’s been w/out institutions like Hillel or the JNF propping it up— neither of which would be as successful either without synagogues that use the JNF’s blue boxes,bring IOF soldiers in to speak, and put up Israeli flags

whitney tilson says he's most concerned about antisemitism because his wife and daughter are jewish lol. i would be so humiliated if my gf was like "my bf is jewish, so i think that bds is the holocaust and we need to have national guard patrols outside hillel chapters"

Lex Wexner, along with Charles Bronfman, co-founded the “MEGA,” a Zionist lobby network and major founder and funder of Zionist initiatives, such as Birthright Israel and Hillel International. Israeli intelligence utilized MEGA as a vehicle for Mossad espionage and influence

1/ A reminder as the academic year starts in the US - Hillel International is a Zionist org promoting genocidal Zionist interests across campuses & w/in admin’s while actively surveilling/harassing/targeting & otherwise endangering Palestinian students/faculty/staff 🧵

2/ like the Zionist State, Hillel should be dismantled & Zionists should be barred from all social, political, and economic spaces, including college/university campuses

3/ of note - In April 2023, the Jewish Agency for Israel & Hillel partnered to bring eight Hillel student leaders to Israel “for a week of high-level meetings with government officials, experiences with Israel’s civil society, & briefings with top geopolitical experts.”

4/ This partnership marks Hillel International’s new initiative, the Israel Leadership Network (ILN), which “provides support & a national infrastructure for pro-Israel student leaders on campuses throughout the country.” hillel.org/student-missio…

5/ The ILN is merely an extension of Hillel’s ongoing work to surveil, harass, & attack those in support of liberation, a free Palestine, an end to the Zionist genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and the dismantling of the Zionist State.

6/ Hillel does this work through Hasbara Fellowships: hillelatbaruch.org/travel-list/ha…

7/ And Jewish Agency Israel Fellows, who are former soldiers in the Zionist military, placed on US campuses to surveil the campus community & encourage Hillel-affiliated students to join the Zionist military: hillel.org/jewish-agency-…

8/ Hillel also partners directly with orgs like Birthright, a cultish genocidal program of indoctrination, normalization, & settler expansion: hillel.org/birthright-isr…

9/ Through Birthright, students are encouraged to spend time in occupied Palestine through travel, volunteer opportunities, internships, and/or professional training. Since 1999, “Birthright Israel programs have contributed $2.3 billion to the (Zionist) economy.”

10/ Who is funding these propaganda trips/exchange programs, which are free for students? In providing this programming, Hillel has accepted money from large private donors, the Zionist government, & Christian Zionist organizations.

11/ In doing so, Hillel has consistently revealed how they will do anything & partner with anyone invested in supporting the Zionist State & shutting down support for the liberation of Palestine, especially when those partners have big purse strings.

12/ Any participation in or partnership with Hillel International is normalization - Hillel International & its members are a direct threat to Palestinian students/faculty/staff, as well as all campus members invested in liberation & a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.