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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Op-Ed | Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism

By Samuel Weiner, Channah Weiner, and Alexandra Weiner • November 17, 2023
We outright reject the conflation of Jewishness and Israel and the corollary equation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Our freedom and safety as Jews are more tied up in ending oppressive and inhumane systems than it is an ethnostate predicated on the dispossession of the Palestinian people.
Five Years Later: A Squirrel Hill Jew looks back at Tree of Life shooting, and forward to collective liberation

Five Years Later: A Squirrel Hill Jew looks back at Tree of Life shooting, and forward to collective liberation

By Bella Markovitz, Senior Staff Writer • October 27, 2023
In the fall of 2018, after graduating high school that spring, I began my first semester at Pitt. I can’t remember if I started considering dropping out before or after the Tree of Life attack happened. 
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House Chamber after President Joe Bidens State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.

Opinion | Republican political tactics show the party still doesn’t care about antisemitism

By Grant Van Robays, Staff Columnist • February 17, 2023
The GOP’s moral crusade against antisemitism in the Democratic party is purely political and shows that the party doesn’t care about preventing the spread of hate.
Opinion | Should we play Hogwarts: Legacy?

Opinion | Should we play Hogwarts: Legacy?

By Livia LaMarca, Senior Staff Columnist • February 17, 2023
There are many reasons one may choose not to play the game and a lot of conflicting information.
Flowers, candles and chalk drawings placed outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2019.

Tree of Life documentary paints a soul-stirring portrait of a healing Pittsburgh

By Patrick Swain, Senior Staff Writer • November 1, 2022
“A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting,” which premiered on HBO on the eve of the four-year commemoration of the Tree of Life massacre, serves to create a powerful portrait of a grieving community on the road to recovery.
Community members mourn the lives lost in the Tree of Life shooting during a ceremony in Schenley Park on Thursday afternoon.

Editorial | Pittsburgh’s Jewish community is still healing

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 28, 2022
For those of us who want a tolerable and equitable world, we hope that through solidarity and activism we can create a better world for everyone, regardless of race, age, ethnicity, religion and so forth. Four years after the Tree of Life, it is crucial to stand with Jewish people everywhere and condemn antisemitism. 
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano speaks at Turning Point Actions Unite and Win rally Downtown on Aug. 19.

Opinion | Mastriano’s coded antisemitic language against Shapiro is dangerous

By Rachel Soloff, Opinions Editor • October 25, 2022
Gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano’s antisemitic rhetoric against his Jewish opponent Josh Shaprio is extremely dangerous and continues to stoke the fire of antisemitism.
A Pitt student wears a mask.

‘Appalled’: Pitt professor compared mask-wearing to the Holocaust

By Betul Tuncer, Assistant News Editor • February 7, 2022
A Jewish Pitt student expressed concerns regarding their instructor, Vasili Rukhadze, comparing mask-wearing to the Holocaust in class last week. Pitt officials said the faculty member’s comments “stand in direct opposition to our values.”
Flowers, candles and chalk drawings placed outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2019.

Editorial | We still need to remember the Tree of Life massacre

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 27, 2021
Three years out from the Tree of Life massacre, there’s still much work to be done in preventing antisemitism.
Opinion | The rise in left-wing antisemitism is dangerous and unacceptable

Opinion | The rise in left-wing antisemitism is dangerous and unacceptable

By Dalia Maeroff, Senior Staff Columnist • May 26, 2021
I wonder if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a touchy subject to Americans because of the antisemitism that runs deep throughout American and world history.
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