Being Pro-Israel on campus doesn’t only mean being defensive against BDS and other Anti-Israel campus activities. Learn how future ZOA Trip Participant Chloe Valdary made a positive impact without the negativity!
It was out of this thought process that the first annual pro-Israel rally in New Orleans, Louisiana, was born. On January 28, 2013, “Declare Your Freedom” (DYF) took place at the University of New Orleans (UNO). I along with my good friend Maor Shapira, sought to change the typical Arab-Israeli narrative by introducing the Zionist creed first into the campus setting.
UNO had previously no anti-Israel events on campus, but at the same time, it had no pro-Israel events on campus either. Declare Your Freedom changed that by declaring publicly that we fellow students on campus were Zionists and proud.
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