Author: Al-Hikmah Staff
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UMD club hosts IDF soldiers event, raising concerns about student safety
Three soldiers from Israel’s military who fought in Gaza during the ongoing genocide were on UMD’s campus at an event held by student organization Students Supporting Israel (SSI) in Jimenez Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 21. The event was intended for the soldiers — Ariel Levy, Daniel Shalom, and Avigayil Atlas — to share their “powerful…
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Al-Hikmah condemns the detention and treatment of journalists, Muslim students and students of color by UMPD
Al-Hikmah condemns the hour-long detention of two of our staff by the University of Maryland’s Police Department as they were fulfilling their journalistic duties to cover a protest against the presence of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldiers at a Students Supporting Israel (SSI) event Tuesday night. In the course of covering the student protest, two…
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UMD Hillel annual “Birthright Israel Trip” raises controversy
A group of UMD students returned from a trip to Israel from June 4 to 15 organized by Maryland Hillel and Taglit-Birthright Israel. Photos and posts from the trip — including students meeting with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and hiking in the Golan Heights, a region internationally recognized as Israeli-occupied Syrian territory — have…
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“We stand in firm solidarity”: Boycott Israel Fest in photos
Enclosed in a circular frame of silver fences, students and faculty stood side-by-side in Hornbake Plaza for a counter-demonstration against the annual “Israel Fest” on May 6. The protest, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), called for the campus community to boycott the festival, referring to it as a celebration of a settler…
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