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Letter to the Editor: Jews for Justice in Palestine responds to recent vigils and protest - Alex Kempler

[🖼 (Left) Pranav Jani addresses the crowd during a Sept. 10 vigil, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine. Credit: Reilly Ackermann | Asst. Campus Editor (Right) Attendees listen to speakers at the vigil hosted by OSU Hillel Sep. 3. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor]

(Left) Pranav Jani addresses the crowd during a Sept. 10 vigil, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine. Credit: Reilly Ackermann | Asst. Campus Editor (Right) Attendees listen to speakers at the vigil hosted by OSU Hillel Sep. 3. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor

Tal Shutkin, a second-year in the Department of Geography’s doctoral program, and Alex Kempler, a sixth-year in the Department of Sociology’s doctoral program, are members of Jews for Justice in Palestine, an Ohio State student organization on behalf of whom this letter was written.

We, Jews for Justice in Palestine, write this letter in response to the Sept. 4 Lantern article on the vigil organized by OSU Hillel and JewishColumbus on the Oval. As Jewish, Palestinian and allied Ohio State students, we share in the broader Jewish community’s grief for the hostages who were killed two weeks ago. Like our peers mentioned on the Sept. 4 vigil, some of us share connections to Hersh Goldberg-Polin. At the same time, we have relatives in Gaza and the West Bank who are also weathering “the worst possible hell.”

As The Lantern accurately reports, the Israeli campaign in Gaza, which is now spreading across the occupied territories, has murdered over 40,000 innocents. These 40,000 are people, too — children even — and like Hersh, each had their own dreams and “a whole life ahead” of them. 

But this is not about counting the dead. Our Jewish tradition teaches that in every life, there exists an entire universe, and to end a life is to extinguish a world. We must be able to see a world in every life lost. It is people’s ability to put themselves in an Israeli’s shoes, but not in a Palestinian’s that makes so many deaths possible.

While this harms Palestinians most acutely, in the end, it hurts us all. The devaluation some Jewish students have reported in their grief over the loss of Israeli lives is real. As Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel wrote in the aftermath of Oct. 7, “that devaluation [of Jewish grief] is itself a hallmark of the cycle of the diminishing value of human life.”

Under the reality of occupation and apartheid, all humanity suffers.

As the first-century sage Rabbi Hillel — yes, the same Hillel who the organizing student group is named for — teaches, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I?” Jews have repeated this lesson about solidarity and community care for 2,000 years, yet it seems to be missing when needed most in the rhetoric of our most vocal institutions. We don’t need to close ourselves off because “non-Jews don’t understand.” This sort of self-isolation can only feed the dehumanization we see today in Gaza.

Instead, we urge readers to practice seeing humanity in others. After all, for the world to recognize its full humanity, including the human right to self-determination, is all the Palestinian movement has been asking for.

A week after the vigil organized by OSU Hillel and JewishColumbus, Ohio State’s Students for Justice in Palestine, also known as SJP, held its own vigil on the Oval Wednesday. The community gathered in remembrance of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Medo Halimy and Mohammad Zeubeidi, along with the countless martyrs throughout all of Palestine.

Though the Ohio State Office of Student Life granted OSU Hillel permission to hold its Sept. 4 event on short notice, SJP’s event was met with a police surveillance tower erected on the Oval, reflecting the general hostility of university administrators toward Palestinian students. 

Two days later on Friday, the community returned for a National Day of Action, marching to demand the university’s divestment from companies aiding in this genocidal campaign. While the horror continues, the hunger for Palestinian liberation and the end to the normalization of Palestinian blood grows.

Football: ‘Improvement week’ upDAYtes - Noah Weiskopf

[🖼 Head coach Ryan Day at the press conference following Ohio State's 56-0 victory over Western Michigan Saturday. Credit: Carly Damon | Asst. Photo Editor]

Head coach Ryan Day at the press conference following Ohio State’s 56-0 victory over Western Michigan Saturday. Credit: Carly Damon | Asst. Photo Editor

The Buckeyes are headed into their first of two bye weeks in 2024.

Ohio State won its first two games against Mid-American Conference opponents, collectively outscoring Akron and Western Michigan 108-6. But the Buckeyes know bigger challenges lie ahead.

That’s why head coach Ryan Day said Ohio State is reframing its first bye week as an “improvement week.”

Instead of taking a week to relax, the Buckeyes will go to work on the practice field Wednesday and Thursday, taking some time off Friday and Saturday.

Here are the three biggest takeaways from Day’s Tuesday press conference at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

How the Buckeyes will approach their “improvement week”

Day said the Buckeyes’ 2024 schedule differs from previous years, with no games against Power Five non-conference opponents. This change gives younger players more chances to gain game experience, which will help the Buckeyes further down the road.

“It has allowed us a little bit of an opportunity with some of the newer guys to get them going and look to get their feet underneath them,” Day said. “As we grow, we know that we got a long way to go on this thing, and it’s just been a little bit different.”

With the bye week arriving after Ohio State’s second game, Day said the team would rather reassess and continue to build skill than just sit back and relax.

Day said a full season of college football isn’t a marathon — like many people claim — but rather 12 straight sprints.

“Everybody else in the country is playing this week for the most part, so we have to as well,” Day said. “We’ve got to get each other better.”

This week, Day said every player will be given a different focus area to improve upon from their respective positional coach.

“That’s the No. 1 thing this week: We gotta stay in a rhythm,” Day said. “We gotta have a good week of practice and think of it like a game week.”

Seth McLaughlin and the offensive line

When graduate center Seth McLaughlin transferred to Ohio State from Alabama, the Buckeyes knew they were getting a seasoned veteran.

Day said having a pro like McLaughlin around has been an immense help to the players and coaches alike.

“If Coach Frye or myself are barking at him, like we will, he just has a calming presence like, ‘We got it, we’ll get this straightened out,’” Day said. “And that’s what you want to hear as a coach.”

The offensive line has been impressive thus far in 2024, despite being without Donovan Jackson, a two-time First-team All-Big Ten senior left guard. Jackson is currently dealing with an undisclosed lower-body injury.

The Buckeyes’ offensive line as a whole has improved from its first to second game, as proved by the rushing attack. Day said he’s seen a lot of good plays and effort from the line, but he knows it still needs to improve for tougher tests later in the season.

“Things were cleaner, but it’s just a start,” Day said. “Bigger challenges ahead.”

Without Jackson, and in a lopsided second half against Western Michigan, Ohio State was able to rotate in more depth linemen, allowing them to gain live experience in a game setting. Day said there’s encouragement in that aspect of the offensive line.

“I did think that the guys who came in in the second half on the O-line was a group that — Was it perfect? No — but I did feel like coming out of this game, it was better than it was in the last couple years,” Day said. “We were finishing at the end of games, guys were competing.”

Former Buckeye quarterbacks excelling elsewhere

Former Buckeyes quarterback Kyle McCord is off to a phenomenal start in his first season away from Columbus.

McCord has led the Syracuse Orange to two straight victories out of the gate, tallying a combined 735 pass yards and eight touchdowns, with only one interception.

Day said he’s happy to see McCord find success in New York.

“I’ve only seen a few highlights; it looks like [he’s] doing a great job,” Day said. “It looks like the first couple games, he’s got a good rhythm.”

But McCord isn’t the only former Buckeye quarterback to begin 2024 on a strong note. 

University of Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers has led the Longhorns to a 2-0 winning streak, most recently securing a top-10 win on the road in Ann Arbor, Michigan against the Wolverines 31-12.

Day said he uses examples like McCord’s and Ewers’ as key selling points to players who are considering committing to Ohio State.

“When you come to Ohio State, you’re going to get developed at a high level at every position,” Day said. “But at quarterback, I take a lot of pride in that, in the fact that we develop guys at a high level. And that even if you were to leave — we don’t want you to leave — but even if you were to leave, it’s time well spent and invested.”