ZOA CAMPUS ZOA Campus in New England and upstate New York continued its strong work, engaging regional students and professionals while championing the spirit of Zionism. In April, ZOA Campus was especially proud and grateful to host Sharren Haskel, the Likud party’s youngest female member of Knesset. MK Haskel had speaking engagements at Harvard and Brandeis universities. In the Mid-Atlantic region, Or Taylor built and maintained connections with seven new schools and introduced them to all that ZOA Campus has to offer. At Muhlenberg College, a small liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, ZOA Campus hosted Neil Lazarus, an expert in Middle East policy, diplomacy, and communications. We also were extremely proud to celebrate the State of Israel’s 69th Independence Day by co-sponsoring Yom Ha’atzmaut festivals at the University of Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg College, East Carolina University, Temple University, and other campuses. ZOA Campus also helped defeat a BDS resolution at George Washington University and will continue this fight in the semesters to come. Pandit Mami, former Midwest Campus Coordinator, is now the campus coordinator covering Ohio and Michigan. In March, we collaborated with the Ohio State University Hillel to defeat a BDS referendum for the third time in three consecutive 26 years. Due to the popularity of and high demand for his Krav Maga education program, Pandit now tours the country teaching Jewish self-defense to campus student groups. Working with our dedicated Campus Fellow at Western Washington University, we hosted a Krav Maga tour of universities in the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon and Washington. Across the country, ZOA’s campus coordinators and their Campus Fellows conducted over 50 SodaStream Root Beer Float events. These events were inspired by Leore Ben-David’s work in the West Coast region. She equipped her Campus Fellows with SodaStream sparkling water machines to use as interactive tools while they tabled and engaged with students about Israel. SodaStream has been a target of the BDS movement, even though it has been a model of peaceful Jewish-Arab co-existence. As students are having fun carbonating and customflavoring their fizzy water from the SodaStream machines, they are getting a quick lesson on why BDS hurts Palestinian Arabs more than it will ever affect Israel’s economy. To top it off, they get to take home their bubbly beverages in a special ZOA 120th anniversary reusable mood cup. (It changes color to blue if you are a true Zionist.) SodaStream has been a target of the BDS movement, even though it has been a model of peaceful Jewish-Arab coexistence… students are getting a quick lesson on why BDS hurts Palestinian Arabs more than it will ever affect Israel’s economy. Three ZOA Israel trip alumni with ZOA Campus Associate Director Jonathan Ginsburg at an Artists for Israel event at Brandeis University
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