Swarthmore College Events Shed Light On J Street’s Co-Sponsorships With Pro-BDS Groups

Photo Credit: Swarthmore SPJP Facebook page

At Swarthmore, besides collaborating on programming with SPJP, J Street U has also defended the group when it has faced criticism. This past spring, when SPJP installed an exhibit in the school’s science center “which brings to light various barriers to education that Palestinian children in the occupied territories face on a daily basis,” some Swarthmore students were offended by the announcement of the exhibit and called it “sickening” and “anti-Israel,” particularly because it coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day.

But in a letter to the editor in Swarthmore’s Daily Gazette, J Street U defended the exhibit and encouraged students to “determine their opinions based on their interpretation of the actual content.”

(JNS)