Serena Jampel in Harvard Magazine:
Last year, in the midst of all of the turmoil on campus in the aftermath of October 7, I sat down to dinner with a Muslim friend. With so many of our peers facing threats of doxxing, she told me how stressful it was to even walk to class from her dorm along the river. She turned to me with a look of utter confusion and said, “I just don’t understand why this is happening.” Growing up in the Jewish community, I understood where the fear and pain were coming from, just as I abhorred the reckless endangerment of my peers by people from outside the University. We had a long, teary discussion about traumas, both historical and present. We didn’t meet under the auspices of formalized “dialogue,” and we didn’t solve anything—far from it. But we hugged and agreed to continue to have meals together.
It seems “dialogue” is everywhere on campus these days.
More here.
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