Jewish community criticizes event confict with Purim

Rather than aim for a nation-state, Olwan believes that liberation can be achieved through other means.

“I think for many of us — for many Palestinians — we have enough evidence and we have enough history that it’s really important for us to imagine our liberation, to imagine Palestinian decolonial futures beyond Palestinian national independence within the context of the nation-state,” Olwan said.

Krawec emphasized a similar need for liberation in the futures of Ojibwe people.

“We’re not imagining an Ojibwe state — we’re imagining that we get to live in our place as our own people,” Krawec said. “That’s the world that we’re imagining: a world without borders.”

In a Guest Room column published in The Sun on Monday, 34 members and allies of Cornell’s Jewish community expressed their disapproval that the event was held on Purim, a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the events told in the Book of Esther. The column detailed what they believe to be a pattern of anti-Israel events held on Jewish holidays.

“This pattern of scheduling during Jewish religious events is at best a troubling oversight and at worst a deliberate attempt to silence dissenting voices. Jewish students should not have to choose between practicing their religion and defending the existence of their historic homeland,” the column read. “To hold an event where the humanity of Jews and their right to exist in their