Opinion: Jewish community must stand up to Trump’s targeting of international students

Opinion: Jewish community must stand up to Trump’s targeting of international students
Written by Alan D. Solomont
Publisher:Boston Globe
Published: April 1, 2025
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Alan Solomont, member of the Nexus Project Board and Dean Emeritus of Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, responded to the detainment of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University PhD student. Solomont editorializes, “What happened to Ozturk, and many other international students, will not make Jewish students safer, nor is it fighting antisemitism. It is weaponizing legitimate Jewish pain and very real concerns about antisemitism to undermine civil liberties and the rule of law, and to attack one of the pillars of American democracy, our colleges and universities.”