FACT CHECK
@WisconsinWatch
+
@GigafactProject
: This is inaccurate. Multiple UW-Madison Jewish students and encampment organizers who were at the scene confirmed to Wisconsin Watch that the agitator was not affiliated with the demonstration group and didn’t shout the Nazi slogan.
Jewish students deserve to feel safe on college campuses.
Pro-Hamas protestors chanted “Heil Hitler” at
@UWMadison
.
All Americans should condemn this hate.
@UWMadison
and
@GovEvers
must REMOVE this illegal encampment and ARREST these antisemitic lawbreakers IMMEDIATELY.
I caught up with Jewish figure skater
@jasonbskates
to talk about his upcoming trip to Beijing for
@jdforward
. Skating fans and Jewish moms alike will appreciate reading about his journey, on and off the ice, to make it to the Olympics a second time:
Some personal news: I'll be joining the
@journalsentinel
in the Wisconsin State Capitol as a Sharon Stark political reporting intern this summer following graduation from
@uw_sjmc
and the completion of my internship with
@WisconsinWatch
. I’m so grateful for this opportunity!
Pro-Palestine protestors interrupt Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin during her speech at
@uwmadison
commencement ceremony with boos. One group in the school of business section is holding a flag
UW Professor Samer Alatout, who was arrested by UWPD this morning, is addressing protestors. “The administration is not the university, it is part of the university. We are all the university,” Alatout said.
Student journalism send off: publishing my last ever college byline from a
@dailycardinal
office computer this morning before graduation. Thank you
@dailycardinal
and
@uw_sjmc
for the most amazing college experience ❤️
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been selected to be part of the
@politico
Journalism Institute’s 2023 class. I’ll be based in the program’s Washington D.C. location, where I’m excited to learn from 15 other students and POLITICO’s staff.
We are pleased to announce the POLITICO Journalism Institute's 2023 class! This class comes from 19 public and private colleges and universities across the country. Join us in welcoming this new wave of emerging journalists.
Read more here👇
2. As a student journalist who is Jewish with ties to the Middle East, I don’t feel excited. Reporting on campus takes an extreme emotional toll and is fraught with pressure, and I know this is true for other Palestinian, Israeli, Muslim, and Jewish student reporters around the
I’m excited to share that I am a recipient of the 2024 James L. Baughman Senior Achievement Award. I feel so grateful to be part of the journalism program here and am honored to be recognized among this amazing group!
Congratulations to our 2024 James L. Baughman Senior Achievement Award winners! The Baughman Award and Scholarship is given to graduating seniors with outstanding academic, professional and community service achievements.
Wednesday update: "Students and faculty members tied to an illegal campus encampment have elected to end talks with campus leaders, walking out of a meeting this morning. For the moment, campus leaders remain open to further discussions, but are deeply disappointed at this
8. Very few student journalists outside of these communities could tell you about the 2020/2021 anti-Netanyahu Black Flag protest movement, Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, or early historical events like the Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, and UN Partition
BREAKING for
@dailycardinal
by myself +
@Mary_Bosch6
: Jewish student leaders made 12 requests to
@UWMadison
campus administration in a meeting this morning. Here they are in full below:
Wisconsin is one of just four states without plans to implement a full-year postpartum Medicaid extension for mothers. The Legislature again blocked an extension with bipartisan support. My latest for
@WisconsinWatch
. 🧵
News articles from sites including the Wisconsin Law Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have reported inaccuracies, as have social media posts like this one:
University of Wisconsin police confirm chants of "Heil Hitler" being directed to Jewish students
@UWMadison
.
@uwchancellor
's response should be carefully considered in light of Title VI obligations.
6. I feel isolated trying to simultaneously balance my identities as a journalist, a Jew, and a student. We cannot expect journalists not to have lived experiences, but we must expect journalists to be fair. There is extra pressure to navigate journalistic ethics of sourcing and
5. I have never felt a tension like this on campus. I have never seen so many people ready to assume bad faith intentions in their fellow classmates. It feels like there is very little room for nuance in conversations on campus, and it is exhausting.
7. A significant number of protestors and reporters started following the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the first time after Oct. 7, and this feels frustrating at times.
I'm excited to share that I've been nominated for 3
@MKEPressClub
awards for reporting at
@dailycardinal
@curbmag
+
@WisconsinWatch
on:
1) Moms for Liberty
2) Jewish students finding community after Oct. 7
3) A MKE barbershop bridging healthcare divides
Honored to receive second place in the
@WNA_news
Awards In Depth Story category for my reporting on Jewish students on campus. So proud of my peers
@dailycardinal
— our staff took home the
@WNA_news
Collegiate General Excellence award and won 30 of the contest's 60 awards!
3. Many of us hold ourselves to a higher standard to get things right. For me, it’s because I know these events will impact Palestinian and Israeli friends whom I care about deeply.
This has undoubtedly been the most challenging reporting I've done in college, and I have never put so much pressure on myself to be accurate. I have tried to put a lot of reflections on campus protests into words this week but realized the only perspective I can speak to is my
10. I’m the first to acknowledge the areas where I am uninformed on the I/P conflict. In fact, the more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. But I hope this perspective can give food for thought to protestors, campus organizers, and national reporters.
“It's no secret that I spent most of my career in education fighting for Wisconsin kids,”
@GovEvers
told the auditorium at Glacier Elementary School in Verona, Wisconsin. “As I say a lot of times, what’s best for our kids is best for our state.”
Jewish students are grappling with division surrounding pro-Palestine protests. Let's break down trends I’ve seen as a journalist covering the protests in Madison, Wisconsin: a thread🧵
The entire
@dailycardinal
team has done amazing work this week, including our new management team who stepped into their roles amid significant breaking news.
It has been a little over a week since I began as the Managing Editor for The Daily Cardinal. It has been difficult to explain the pride I have for everyone who helped contribute to our protest coverage this week. (1/4)
More than 50 student groups have joined UW Madison’s pro Palestine encampment organizers, SJP, YDSA, and Wisco for Pali, to call on the university to divest from Israel, according to SJP’s Instagram. Here are the groups:
On April 29 a man agitated a group of Jewish students and a Hillel staff member standing near the University of Wisconsin-Madison pro-Palestine encampment and did a raised-hand Nazi salute toward them, but did not shout “Heil Hitler.”
Happening now on Library Mall across from the encampment: pro-Israel students hold a counter demonstration with signs about the hostages and their donation campaign. For every hour the encampment stands, they plan to donate to Israel.
First, my background. As a college journalist, I’ve covered Jewish students and antisemitism in publications including the
@jdforward
,
@JTAnews
, and
@dailycardinal
for the past four years. I’m a senior at UW-Madison, and I can only speak to the atmosphere on my campus.
An example of misinformation: a video of pro-Palestine protestors at UW-Madison chanting what the original Tweet writer thought was “glory to the murders" widely circulated last week. In a
@WisconsinWatch
fact brief, a longer clip shows it was actually "glory to the martyrs."🧵
FACT CHECK
@WisconsinWatch
+
@GigafactProject
: This is inaccurate. Multiple UW-Madison Jewish students and encampment organizers who were at the scene confirmed to Wisconsin Watch that the agitator was not affiliated with the demonstration group and didn’t shout the Nazi slogan.
I’m excited to share that I was added to this year’s Wisconsin Health Journalism Fellowship through the
@AHCJ
! It’s a huge honor to join a group of such phenomenal journalists! (1/2)
9. I’m not saying people have to be an expert to protest or report on a subject. But it’s not lost on me that after school ends and the encampments eventually come down, these events will still impact my life.
My Q & A with Sara Camposarcone, the TikToker bringing sustainable fashion to Gen Z audiences, is out today in
@politico
's The Long Game newsletter via
@politico
1. There is a sense among some students and journalists that the encampments are exciting to participate in or report on. Some have likened this to our generation’s Vietnam War. Students feel exhilarated to take part in a movement larger than themselves.
4. Beyond the standard risks that come with reporting, we face potential repercussions and ostracization from those within our communities. Reporting on instances of antisemitism and islamophobia carries additional anxiety for us. Criticism of our reporting accuses us of having
me trying to pass AP stats even though I’ve missed class 21 times this semester, have failed 3 tests this month, and have 9 homework assignments to do🤩✨💖😎🙌🏻
“We gather in community and in hopes that by coming together in protest, we can push the administration on this campus to address its complicity in the genocide in Gaza by divesting from Israel. Everyone is welcome to participate in this liberation Shabbat.“
I’m excited to share that my
@curbmag
story on a Milwaukee barbershop bridging healthcare divides won the
@spj_tweets
Mark of Excellence Large Feature Reporting category in Region 6, which covers Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
This is the point I feel national reporting on encampments has neglected the most. The majority of students are in this grey space, somewhere between two poles of the spectrum. If we only interview the loudest voices, we lose this nuance — and inadvertently sow division.
I’ve tracked incidents of antisemitism, reported survey data trends on American Jews, and covered departmental statements on Zionism for national publications. Since the fall, I’ve covered numerous campus events and spoken with many Jewish students about the atmosphere following
Photo sent to me this week from my aunt of my great Grandpa, Israel Geller, reading the Yiddish Forverts. Taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s in New York. My first internship was with the Forward
@jdforward
70 years later in the summer of 2021! 🗞️
Indiana University students are pushing for administrators and Greek life leaders to take action against antisemitism following online posts that called the Jewish people "some of the worst to walk this planet" -
@jdforward
I spoke with mothers, doctors, advocates, and national Medicaid experts to understand why Wisconsin's program is an outlier. In Wisconsin, where two of every five mothers give birth on BadgerCare Plus, coverage stops for most recipients at 60 days.
Students said they were standing peacefully when the man approached them and started sharing his thoughts on the war. In a video from the incident, the man admits to doing the salute. (Video filmed by Justin Kay.)
Moms for Liberty, a national conservative organization that has drawn scrutiny for its extreme rhetoric, is expanding in Wisconsin.
Over the past 2 months, I followed the group’s growth, hearing from members — and their critics — around the state.
As a college senior studying journalism, what seems like the inevitability of frequent layoffs in the field is seriously discouraging — devastated for all the phenomenal LA Times journalists laid off today.
Growing up, my unruly Jewish curls were a major source of insecurity. It’s taken a long time and a lot of hair tutorials to reach where I’m at now, & this recent article for
@Coveteur
feels like a way to come full circle.🤍 Check out the story below:
Axios poll of college students: 🧵
Only a small minority (8%) of college students have participated in either side of the protests.
Three times as many college students blame Hamas for the current situation in Gaza than they do President Biden.
The line for
@BernieSanders
’ keynote address at
@CTIdeaFest
has flowed out of Memorial Union all the way to college library - the Vermont senator will speak with
@CapTimes
editor John Nichols at 7 p.m. I’m here with
@dailycardinal
!
📍 Highlights from day 3 of PJI: visiting
@politico
reporters on Capitol Hill, spending part of the day at
@NPR
, & attending PJI’s 10th Anniversary Celebration (where I also saw fellow
@uw_sjmc
badger
@tamiafowlkes
! 🦡 )
Photo from
@dailycardinal
’s
@JakeP_15
-
@UWMadison
seniors take graduation pictures amid countering pro-Palestine and pro-Israel events on Library Mall. The class of 2024 started college amid the chaos of the pandemic and is graduating as their campuses are again in turmoil.
Chalk on Library Mall today: “Don’t lose hope, the people of Gaza need us to keep fighting” and “The Genocide has not stopped.” Likely written this afternoon after rain wiped away older chalk
UW Madison announced a pair of student organizations have been suspended on an interim basis. This follows
@dailycardinal
reporting by myself,
@TylerKatzen
@jasperberns
on chalking outside the farmers market this Saturday that praised Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis
Monday update: Two UW–Madison student organizations are under investigation and have received interim suspension notices related to allegations of conduct in violation of student organization codes.
About half of MKE public school buildings lack full or partial air conditioning. Without plans for major upgrades, students & teachers say they are experiencing uncomfortably hot classrooms. (From Jonmaesha Beltran and myself for
@WisconsinWatch
)
A reminder: we are not sources. My peers’ work and social media posts have been covered and reposted later by national media. National reporters ask us who they should talk to on campus and what inside knowledge we know, which we are happy to help out with, but attribute us,
Pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, anti-Netanyahu, anti-Hamas students on campus feel they have nowhere to go – and they are the silent majority. Some have chosen to take part in pro-Palestine or pro-Israel events on campus while knowing they may not agree with all of the rhetoric used
We love
@WisconsinWatch
and want to help make it the best it can be. Unionizing allows us to live into our values of fostering an improved citizenry and strengthening democracy.
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Chalking included “Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now,” “Power to Al-Qassam," “Al-Qassam show us how, kill another soldier now," “Power to Hezbollah" and “Power to Ansrallah [Houthis] Seize them All."