It was mid-March and the death toll from Israel‘s war on Gaza was continuing to spiral.
Watching the horrors unfold in real-time, David Rosenburg*, a 19-year-old student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was angry and frustrated that Israeli forces, supported by the United States and other western powers, were carrying out widespread atrocities in Gaza as part of a supposedly “justified” response to the 7 October attacks on southern Israel.
Determined to not be a bystander, Rosenburg began to organise against the war on campus. He also read voraciously about the region.
Whilst reading Frantz Fanon’s seminal book, A Dying Colonialism, about the Algerian revolutionary war against the French, he came across a statement by a group of Jews from the Algerian city of Constantine that finally addressed an unanswered question.
The group said they would commit themselves to resisting the French because they knew of the history of co-existence between Muslims and Jews in Algeria prior to colonialism and understood that Europe, with its long history of antisemitism, was no friend of theirs…..more
