What is happening at The Ohio State University? How is it connected to Rutgers?
The conference, titled the Third National Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement,” will be held at The Ohio State University November 7-9. The conference was planned for Rutgers, but the national group’s organizers decided to move the conference to OSU, where it will be hosted by a student organization, the Committee for Justice in Palestine. (For details, see http://www.palestineconference.com/index.html). The New Jersey affiliate of the national organization planned to hold its own conference at Rutgers October 10-12, but was denied use of university facilities there after failing to meet criteria required of all student organizations planning large-scale events on campus (For information on the New Jersey conference, visit http://www.divestmentconference.com/). What is the conference about? The previous two conferences, at Berkeley and the University of Michigan, had an underlying premise that Israel is a racist, apartheid, colonial settler state, that Zionism is in
