An expert looks at the history of youth activism on Israel and Palestine.
University campuses have long been hubs of political activism. As young people form their own opinions away from their parents, many act passionately for causes they believe in. This includes the situation in Israel and Palestine, a regular feature of student debate in the US, UK and across Europe for decades.
Palestinian students have also expressed concerns about restrictions on their speech when it comes to supporting Palestinian liberation. Students at SOAS University of London were temporarily suspended following a Gaza solidarity rally. While SOAS said the suspension was due to the students’ conduct during the rally and not the rally’s message, the SOAS Palestine Society declared this a “targeting act of political repression”.
I have researched the rise of Israeli-Jewish anti-occupation activism over the last two decades. Until the turn of the millennium, liberal Zionist groups in Israel were the largest and most vocal element of the Israeli peace movement. They called for a two-state solution for the security of Israel. This radical faction’s numbers have never been more than a few hundred. They are marginalised by Israeli society and subjected to police and army violence. But they have had a notable influence in normalising anti-occupation sentiment within the peace movement in Israel.
The anti-occupation voice of the younger generation is evident in the emergence of progressive Jewish groups such as Yachad, formed in 2011, and Na'amod in 2018. As I argue in my book on the changing Israeli peace movement, it is often the more radical groups who mobilise quicker in periods of tension. In doing so, they set the agenda, influencing moderate groups to take up more confrontational ideas.
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