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Why do all those US universities have dealings with Israel? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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All those student protests on the US seem to be about stopping their universities from supporting the Israel government. But supporting a foreign government is not a normal thing for a university to do, why do they do it?

Is there some educational or research resource they get?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I will try to be as neutral as I can, though it seems impossible in this space.

A lot of Jewish people live outside of Israel for reasons going way back in history, we won't get into the details of that now. Many of them remain closely tied with family / community / culture / religious practices & beliefs in Israel. These folks are sometimes called the Diaspora.

Some of them live in the United States (and are US citizens) and some of them are very successful / influential. Like almost any other demographic group, some of them can be found on the boards of colleges and universities, corporations, etc.

And some of these folks are still very much invested in Israel and care about what is going on over there, like other folks in the Diaspora.

I hope that helps. I am not taking a side with this answer, just trying to provide some general context on the how we got here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I think it needs to be said most Jewish people in the diaspora are not Zionists. And that Israel is and always has been a puppet state formed by the the US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's a wild jump to make.

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