USA: Student Group Breaks With International Jewish Organization After Dispute Over Israel Policies

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On Monday, the group’s board voted to drop “Hillel” from its name after Hillel International's legal counsel, Tracy Turoff, sent the school a letter earlier in the day threatening legal action

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By Antonia Blumberg | March 17, 2014

Swarthmore College’s Hillel group is breaking ties with its parent organization, a Jewish student network with a presence on more than 550 colleges and universities around the world.

On Monday, the group’s board voted to drop “Hillel” from its name after Hillel International's legal counsel, Tracy Turoff, sent the school a letter earlier in the day threatening legal action over a speaker series the group planned.

The series began in February and focuses on social justice issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In February, Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad came to campus to speak as part of the series, and in April the group will host the executive director of Women of the Wall, Lesley Sachs, and the co-founder of Israeli Jewish-Arab education center Yad B’Yad (Hand in Hand), Lee Gordon.

An event scheduled for next week set off an alarm for Turoff, who said the speakers, civil rights organizers Ira Grupper, Mark Levy, Larry Rubin and Dorothy Zellner, openly support the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel movement.

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