@DragonBoatGirl
I understand your concern. As a non-involved neutral party these are my comments…
I guess the activities of the students you refer to is perhaps “Anti-Current Israeli Government” policies, but definitely NOT Anti-Semitic or Anti Jews. There is a HUGE difference between the two.
At this time the Governments of United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Spain and several other European nations are condemning the actions of the current Israeli government’s over reaction [as the posters depicted] in Palestine, that does not make these countries Anti Semitic or Anti Israel. They all want peace for the region.
I also heard about Anti-Israel [Not Anti Jewish] posters were taken down at night time by some “unknown” miscreants. I guess there is no free speech be it good or bad, when it comes to anything to do with Israel, it has to be only good may be? Consider the reverse if a poster speaking good about Israel was taken down over night, then there will be a huge outcry saying the students are anti jewish, anti semitic?
Israeli/Palestinian conflict is too complicated for simple mortals to comprehend. Both sides feel they are in the right. There are a significant number of Jewish people in Israel who want to live in peace with a peaceful Palestine, but there is an equal number of Israelis who feel that a peaceful coexistence is not possible. Only time will say who is right.
Peaceniks in Israel are sidelined or murdered [Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin]. If the rest of the world does not take up the cause for peace, then there will be no peace. If not for the world wide movement, there will still be apartheid in South Africa.
I also hear that the firing of the Rabbi is not related to this student movement. Do not link the two.
Wellesley like all the other educational institutions supports free speech. It wants to develop leaders like perhaps your daughter who in the future may the person instrumental in solving this thorny issue. And that will not happen unless she spars with dissenting opinion and then either convinces the other party or gets convinced about the opposing opinion.
Don’t let this sway you away or don’t sway your daughter away from Wellesley because of this. You will see this in ALL colleges.
Wellesley definitely is NOT Anti-Semitic or Anti Israel or Pro Palestine [which is what perhaps lot of people want]. It is a MATURE educational institution that encourages free speech.
BTW… I am not Anti Jewish or Anti Semitic neither am I, Pro Palestine.