Our guest is Aharon Dardik, a Columbia University undergraduate with a remarkable story. The son of an orthodox rabbi, he spent part of his childhood in a religious settlement in the West Bank. After studying in yeshiva in Israel, he went to prison rather than serve in the Israeli military, and then enrolled at Columbia, where after October 7 he founded Columbia Jews for Ceasefire. Earlier this year, he was among the Jewish students who chained themselves to a gate to protest the university’s complicity in the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
We discuss…
How he came to change his views
How people in his life reacted
His decision not to serve in the IDF
How his experience as a Jewish student at Columbia compares to public perception
Mahmoud Khalil
“Globalize the intifada”
How he deals with disagreement in his family and beyond
Peter
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